Alexander Goss
Alexander Goss
Archaelogist , second Bishop of Liverpool, born Ormskirk, England , 1814 ; died Liverpool, England , 1872 . He was ordained at the English College in Rome, 1841 ; consecrated, 1853 ; and became Bishop of Liverpool, 1856 . Zealous, and outspoken, he was a champion of Catholic education and of the welfare of the Church. As a member of the Chetham Society he edited several archaeological treatises; he also collected materials for a history of Catholicity in the north, and edited Drioux’s “Sacred History.”