Career
Born in the United States on 1 January 1889, Morris was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts on 13 June 1914. He was appointed the Prefect of Peng-yang by Pope Pius XI on 1 April 1930. After six years of pastoral care to the prefecture, he resigned the post on 31 July 1936.
Monsignor Father Morris died on 10 July 1987, aged 98.