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Francisco Mora i Borrell (Spanish: Francisco Mora y Borrell) was a Catalan Catholic priest who served as the Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles from 1878 to 1896.Mora was born in Gurb a village in the comarca of Osona in the Province of Barcelona on 25 November 1827. Where in Spain he did his seminary studies is not known. He then emigrated to the United States where he was received and ordained a priest by Bishop Thaddeus Amat y Brusi C.M. for the Diocese of Monterey on 19 March 1856.
