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Spellman, Francis

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Spellman, Francis (Joseph) (1889–1967)

US Catholic prelate. In 1939, he was made archbishop of New York and military vicar of US armed forces, becoming a cardinal in 1946. A strong administrator and influential leader, with close ties both to the Vatican and to high US officials, he was a religious conservative and ardent anticommunist.

He was born in Whitman, Massachusetts. Ordained after studies in Rome (1916), he did parish work and worked on Boston's archdiocesan newspaper. He served as attaché to the papal secretary of state in 1925, and became auxiliary bishop of Boston in 1932. From 1951 he regularly spent Christmas visiting troops overseas. His writings include a best-selling novel, The Foundling (1951).



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