James Edwin Cassidy
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James Edwin Cassidy (August 1, 1869 – May 17, 1951) served as the third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. He was ordained a priest September 8, 1898 and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River on March 21, 1930. He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Fall River on July 13, 1934 as the health of his predecessor, Daniel Francis Feehan, declined. After Bishop Feehan's death on July 19, Cassidy succeeded him as bishop on July 28, 1934.[1]
In 1945 Bishop Cassidy received the assistance of a Coadjutor Bishop, the Most Reverend James L. Connolly, a Fall River priest who had served for many years as a professor and then rector of the Seminary in the Archdiocese of St. Paul.
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