John O'Connor (priest)
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This article is about the Yorkshire Catholic priest. For the Anglican priest, see John O'Connor (Archdeacon of Emly). For the former archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, see John O'Connor (cardinal).
For other people named John O'Connor, see John O'Connor (disambiguation).
John O'Connor (1870–1952) was an Irish Catholic parish priest in England who was the basis of G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective Father Brown. O'Connor was instrumental in Chesterton's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922. O'Connor also received the poet and painter David Jones into the church in 1921 and was associated with Eric Gill and the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling.
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Born | (1870-12-05)5 December 1870 Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland |
Died | 6 February 1952(1952-02-06) (aged 81) |
Religion | Roman Catholic Church |
Ordained | 30 March 1895 |
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