Francis Augustine Thill

Francis Augustine Thill was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Salina from 1938 until his death in 1957.

Francis Thill was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Bernard and Margaret Thill. After attending the University of Dayton, he entered Mount St. Marys Seminary of the West at Cincinnati in 1914. As a seminarian he established and organized the Catholic Students Mission Crusade to aid missionaries in foreign fields. Thill was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Henry K. Moeller on February 28, 1920. He then furthered his studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, and toured American missionary outposts in the Orient. Upon his return, he served as professor of oratory at Mount St. Marys, and became chancellor of the Cincinnati Archdiocese and Domestic Prelate of His Holiness .

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