Bios: RT. REV. JOHN FRANCIS REGIS CANEVIN, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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        RT. REV. JOHN FRANCIS REGIS CANEVIN,
  
  [p. 803] Bishop of Pittsburg, was born in Westmoreland County,
  Pennsylvania, June 5, 1853. He spent his early youth at St. Xavier's,
  Beatty, Pa., and also at New Castle, his uncle being then a pastor of
  one of the city churches.
  
  Bishop Canevin was educated at St. Vincent College and Seminary, Beatty,
  Pa., and was ordained a priest at St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburg,
  January 4, 1879. His first appointment was as assistant at St. Mary's,
  Lawrenceville, where he remained two years. Then he was assigned as an
  assistant at the Cathedral, August 1, 1881, where he remained five
  years. In 1886 he was given charge of St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, State
  Reformatory at Morganza, Western Penitentiary, together with the Mission
  at Canonsburg. In June, 1891, he was appointed Chancellor of the
  Diocese, in 1893 pastor of St. Philip's, Crafton; in March, 1895,
  returning as pastor to the Cathedral.
  
  Bishop Canevin was consecrated Coadjutor-Bishop of Pittsburg by the Most
  Reverend Patrick J. Ryan, Archbishop of Philadelphia, February 24, 1903,
  and became Bishop at Pittsburg at the death of Bishop Phelan, December
  21, 1904.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 28 Dec 2001