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Bishop James Conley is a native of Overland Park, Kansas and a convert to Catholicism. He served as a priest for 23 years before his Episcopal Ordination, including 10 years of service to the Holy Father as an official in the Vatican Congregation for Bishops in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him auxiliary bishop of Denver on April 10, 2008.

He was ordained by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M Cap. on May 30, 2008, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, at Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.  Bishop Conley has chosen as his episcopal motto, “Heart speaks to heart.”  

Upon Archbishop Chaput’s appointment as Archbishop of Philadelphia on September 8, 2011, Bishop Conley was named apostolic administrator of Denver.

On September 14, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Conley as Bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. Bishop Conley was formally installed on November 20, 2012, at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln.

Life and Family Background of James Conley

The Negro James Conley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1886. In later years, Conley was one of ten children (Koenigsberg, 2012). Conley stated at the trial he went to school for about a year (the 1900 census lists Conley as illiterate), but despite his lack of formal education, Conley had learned on his own how to read and write on a basic level. A deep search of public records, regional church baptismal files, and Georgia Vital Statistics Office reveals no surviving documents concerning Jim Conley’s birth or death. The institution of rules and regulations requiring birth records for all newborn whites and blacks was not fully mandated back then in the 19th century (1800s), but these laws eventually became commonplace in the 20th century (1900s) and beyond. The question perplexing most Leo Frank case scholars is why there is no death record for Jim Conley. Some Leo Frank authors have claimed that Jim Conley passed away during the early 1960s. Harry Golden was first to p

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