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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 43°38′03″N70°17′34″W / 43.6342491°N 70.2928264°W |
| Owned by | Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland |
| No. of graves | >42,000 |
| Website | Official website |
| Find a Grave | Calvary Cemetery |
Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery in South Portland, Maine, US. [1]
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Edward Daniel Howard was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Davenport from 1924 to 1926 and the Archbishop of Portland from 1926 to 1966. At the time of his death in 1983 he was the oldest Catholic bishop in the world.
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James Augustine Healy was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first known African American to serve as a Catholic priest or bishop. With his predominantly European ancestry, Healy passed for a white man and identified as such.
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Charles Joseph Loring Jr. was a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, and later in the United States Air Force in the Korean War. Loring rose to the rank of major and posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on November 22, 1952, above Kunwha, Korea during a close air support mission.
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