Giacomo Moris

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Giacomo Moris (born 1876 in Peer, Belgium) was a Belgian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Roseau. He was ordained in 1900. He was appointed bishop in 1922. He died in 1957. [1]

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