Background
He was born in New York, New York on March 25, 1917, the son of the Review John Russell Fortisque Sheridan and his wife, Gertrude Magdalen Sheridan. Sheridan grew up in Baltimore where he attended Saint Paul"s School.
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William Sheridan
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Later he was able to go to Wisconsin where he attended seminary at Nashotah House while doing his undergraduate work at Carroll College (Wisconsin).
Career
He died September 24, 2005, at his home in Culver, Indiana and was buried in New Oakhill Cemetery, Plymouth, Indiana. He started college at the University of Virginia but had to drop out because of the Great Depression. He received a Bachelor from Carroll in 1939 and an M.Div from Nashotah in 1946.
In 1947 he became rector of Street Thomas in Plymounth and served there until he was elected bishop in 1972.
William Sheridan was consecrated as bishop on June 24, 1972, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame at the special invitation of Notre Dame"s former President, French Theodore M. Hesburgh.
Bishop Sheridan was the first non-Roman Catholic to be so honored.
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Religion
Anglican