Career
He became one of the several priests involved in the case of exorcizing a boy in Saint Louis, Missouri, who was allegedly possessed after using a Ouija board. The case would inspire author William Peter Blatty to write a novel about exorcism, titled The Exorcist. In the 1950s, Bishop was sent to Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he taught for more than twenty years.
He died in February, 1978 in Nebraska.