Dean William McNulty

Dean William N. McNulty, was an American pioneer Roman Catholic priest, who arrived in New York from his native Ballyshannon, Ireland in 1850, during the time of the Great Famine and when, there, then, existed little in the way of Roman Catholic facilities about near by Passaic County, New Jersey. He is responsible for much of the foundation of the structural and institutional infrastructure of today's Roman Catholic Church in Paterson, New Jersey. To the end of his 93 years, a simple parish priest and caring steward of his flock, he refused the Pope's appointment of him as a Domestic prelate and, even, the then powerful Ku Klux Klan could not intimidate this beloved…

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