Raymond J. Bishop

Raymond J. Bishop (January 15, 1906 – February 1978) was a Catholic priest. He became one of the several priests involved in the case of exorcising a boy in St. Louis, Missouri, who allegedly was possessed after using a Ouija board. The case inspired author William Peter Blatty to write his novel The Exorcist in 1971.[1]

Life

In 1949, Father Bishop taught at St. Louis University, where one of his female students asked for help concerning her 13-year-old cousin (for reasons of anonymity referred to by the pseudonym Robbie Mannheim), who she said had been experiencing supernatural attacks after playing with a Ouija board and had gone through one unsuccessful exorcism. Bishop contacted his close friend, Father William S. Bowdern, and they performed another exorcism on the boy.[2][3]

In the 1950s, Bishop was sent to Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he taught for more than 20 years. He died in February 1978 in Nebraska.

References
  1. Bishop, Raymond J.; Saint Booth, Christopher (2015). The Exorcist Diary: The True Story. Spooked TV Publications. ISBN 0692536698.
  2. Taylor, Troy (2006). The Devil Came to St. Louis: The True Story of the 1949 Exorcism. Whitechapel Productions Press. ISBN 9781892523464.
  3. LaChance, Steven A. (2017). Confrontation with Evil: An In-Depth Review of the 1949 Possession that Inspired The Exorcist. Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN 9780738751924.
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