Word: conleth
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Most Rev. James Conleth Ryan, 48, a balding, six-foot-two, ebullient, Chicago-born Franciscan, the fishermen of Santarém are the elite among the 150,000 people in his France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
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