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John was born on June 2, 1840 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States, a son of Richard Madison and Mary Jane (Lancaster) Spalding, a nephew of Martin John Spalding, and a descendant of Thomas Spalding who settled in Maryland about 1650.
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John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. The diocesan offices of the Diocese of Peoria are located in the Spalding Center, named for him. Peoria's Catholic high school for boys, Spalding Institute, was named for him; the school was closed in 1989 during the Peoria Notre Dame High School merger. Spalding Hall at The Catholic University of America was also named for him.He was born on June 2, 1840 in Lebanon, Kentucky and ordained a priest at age 23, on December 19, 1863, in the Diocese of Louisville. His uncle, Martin John Spalding, later became Bishop of Louisville then Archbishop of Baltimore, but did not live to see John himself become bishop
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John was born on June 2, 1840 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States, a son of Richard Madison and Mary Jane (Lancaster) Spalding, a nephew of Martin John Spalding, and a descendant of Thomas Spalding who settled in Maryland about 1650.
Educated in local schools and St. Mary's College, from which he was graduated in 1859, Spalding, in answer to the priestly vocation so common in his family, entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West in Cincinnati. Subsequently, he proceeded to the American College at Rome and to the American College at Louvain.
Ordained a priest by dispensation on December 19, 1863, he remained in Europe two years longer engaged in advanced studies.
After his return to the United States, Spalding served as a curate of the Cathedral in Louisville, organized St. Augustine's negro parish (1869), and acted as secretary to Bishop Peter J. Lavialle and William McCloskey and as chancellor of the diocese (1871).
Recognized as a scholarly theologian, he accompanied his ordinary to the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore (1866), where he was invited to preach before the assembled prelates.
In 1872 he left the Louisville diocese and was stationed as an assistant at St. Michael's Church in New York. While here he published a biography of his uncle, The Life of the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding (1873). Named by Pope Pius IX to the see of Peoria, Spalding was consecrated bishop by John Cardinal McCloskey in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, on May 1, 1877.
He was associated with the liberal leaders of the Church in the Third Council of Baltimore (1884); with John Ireland in the Irish colonization movement; and with the founders and promoters of the Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C. , in the establishment of which he is regarded as the moving force (see An Address Delivered at the Laying of Corner-Stone of the Catholic University, 1888).
He was largely responsible for the Catholic educational exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. His educational essays, which appeared in the American Catholic Quarterly Review, the Catholic World, and the Educational Review, received high praise from impartial critics.
In 1905 The Spalding Year Book: Quotations from the Writings of Bishop Spalding appeared, under the editorship of M. R. Cowan; and a long narrative poem, A Kentucky Pioneer, was published in 1932. A sermon touching upon Americanism which he preached at Rome in 1900 (published by the Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame University), challenged attention and was quoted at length in the Independent, with the observation that "such a leader, who is a scholar, theologian, and poet, is an honor to his Church. "
His active life was ended by a paralytic stroke in 1905. He resigned his see on September 11, 1908, and lived in retirement as titular archbishop of Scitopolis until his death.
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He was never married.