Francis Beckman

Francis Joseph Beckman was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lincoln and as Archbishop of Dubuque .

Francis Beckman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Francis and Elizabeth Beckman. He studied at St. Gregorys Preparatory Seminary and Mount St. Marys Seminary in Cincinnati, at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 20, 1902. Following his ordination, he received a Licentiate of Sacred Theology and later a Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Gregorian.

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