John William Comber

He left college in 1925 to study for the priesthood at Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining, New York.

[2] After his 1931 ordination, the Society sent Comber to China to serve as a missionary at their mission in Fushun, Manchuria.

[1] Pope John XXIII appointed Comber as the titular bishop of Foratiana on January 23, 1959.

[1]He was consecrated on April 9, 1959, in Queen of Apostles Chapel at Maryknoll Seminary by Cardinal Francis Spellman,.

Comber retired as pastor of Transfiguration in 1969 and moved to the Maryknoll Development House in Manhattan.

As his health declined, Comber moved to the St. Teresa Residence in Ossining, where he remained until his death.

His funeral mass was celebrated in the Queen of Apostles Chapel on April 1, 1998, by Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Sheridan.