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Title	Fr. Kupfer and Sr. Richard at Luoding, China, 1938.
Description	This is a photograph of Fr. Kupfer assisted by Sr. Richard baptizing an orphan.; Born in New York, Bishop Kupfer came to Maryknoll in 1928 after graduating from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland. He was ordained at Maryknoll in 1933. After ordination he was assigned to Wuchow, South China. He began what was to be a 14 year period of missionary work in this diocese. In 1944, while the Japanese army was making inroads in Wuchow, Fr. Kupfer was assigned to the United States. His duties took him to Taichung, Taiwan where he was consecrated a Bishop in 1962. He served there in this capacity until 1986.
Subject	Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Clergy Missionary work
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Luoding
Geographic subject (country)	China
Coverage date	1938-05-02
Photographer	Lavin, Joe
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1938-05-02
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	Photographic prints, 8.9 x 6.2 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m3909
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
Part of repository	Maryknoll Mission Archives
File	MKL/China/005/09/0009
Rights	http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/593; Maryknoll Mission Archives
Access conditions	http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/593
Repository name	Maryknoll Mission Archives
Repository address	Maryknoll Mission Archives, PO. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y 10545-0305
Repository email	archives@maryknoll.org
Filename	IMP-MKL-China-005-09-0009
Archival file	impa_Volume8/IMP-MKL-China-005-09-0009.tiff

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