Michael Corrigan

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His Excellency

Michael Augustine Corrigan
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
NationalityAmerican
Previous post(s)
MottoDOMINUS PETRA MEA
(The Lord Is My Rock)
SignatureMichael Augustine Corrigan's signature
Coat of armsMichael Augustine Corrigan's coat of arms
Styles of
Michael Augustine Corrigan
Your Excellency
Religious styleArchbishop

Michael Augustine Corrigan (August 13, 1839 – May 5, 1902) was an American

Roman Catholic Church who served as the third archbishop of New York from 1885 to 1902.[1]

Early life

Michael Augustine Corrigan was born August 13, 1839, in

Basilica of St. John Lateran, and received a doctorate of divinity in 1864.[2]

Corrigan returned to New Jersey in 1864, where he joined the faculty at

Bernard J. McQuaid left Seton Hall in 1869 to assume his duties as bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, Corrigan succeeded him as college president and also became vicar general of the Diocese of Newark.[2]

Bishop of Newark

Corrigan succeeded James Roosevelt Bayley as bishop of Newark, becoming the second ordinary of the diocese. He was consecrated bishop on May 4, 1873, at 34 years old—becoming the youngest Catholic bishop in US history.[3] The diocese encompassed the entire state of New Jersey during Corrigan's tenure. He administered diocesan affairs during a time of rapid population growth, Roman Catholic institutional development, immigration from Ireland and Germany, and considerable urbanization in the northern part of the state.

When boys sent to state institutions were not allowed to attend Mass, the Bishop offered to provide clergy, was refused. He then established The Catholic Protectory in Denville, where the boys were taught skills and trades.[4]

Archbishop of New York

Corrigan was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop to John Cardinal McCloskey of New York on October 1, 1880,[5] with the titular see of Petra, and succeeded to the archbishopric on October 10, 1885, serving as archbishop until his death.

Corrigan's career in New York proved controversial on a number of levels. He aligned himself closely with his former mentor,

John Ireland, James Gibbons and other bishops who advocated "Americanization" within the Catholic Church. Within the American hierarchy, he was the closest supporter of Pope Leo XIII on Testem benevolentiae nostrae
. He also proved unpopular with many bishops for his involvement in backstage intrigue at the Vatican.

Within the

St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie
.

In 1897,

Edgardo Mortara preached in St. Patrick's Cathedral New York City, but the Archbishop of New York told the Holy See that he opposed Mortara's efforts to evangelize the Jews on the grounds that such efforts might embarrass the Church in the view of the United States government.[citation needed
]

Corrigan was rebuked by the Vatican in 1887 for neglecting the spiritual needs of the surge of Italian immigrants settling in New York and for treating them in a humiliating way. Italians were neither permitted to attend Mass at Irish churches nor construct their own churches, instead being permitted to hear Mass only in the basements of Irish churches. Corrigan justified this exclusion on the grounds that the Italians were "not very clean" and would drive down revenues unless segregated from the Irish.[6]

He also had invited

Mother Cabrini to New York, but had to withdraw his invitation.[why?
] By then Mother Cabrini and her missionaries had already embarked on their sea voyage to New York.

Corrigan slipped and fell when inspecting the excavation of the seminary in 1902. He contracted pneumonia during his convalescence and died. He was interred in the crypt under the altar of

St. Patrick's Cathedral
.

Ordination history of
Michael Corrigan
History
Priestly ordination
DateSeptember 19, 1863
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecratorJohn McCloskey
Co-consecratorsJohn Loughlin William George McCloskey
DateMay 4, 1873
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Michael Corrigan as principal consecrator
Winand Michael Wigger1881
Patrick Anthony Ludden1887
Charles Edward McDonnell1892
Henry Gabriels1892
Thomas Martin Aloysius Burke1894
James Augustine McFaul1894
John Murphy Farley1895
James Edward Quigley1897
John Joseph O'Connor, Bishop of Newark1901
Michael Corrigan

See also

  • Archdiocese of New York#Ordinaries

References

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Corrigan, Michael Augustine" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 197.
  2. ^ a b Mooney, Joseph. "Michael Augustine Corrigan." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. October 8, 2015
  3. ^ "Most Rev. Michael A. Corrigan, D.D.", Archdiocese of Newark
  4. ^ Meehan, Thomas. "Newark." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 11 February 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ a b "Grace CVI, Madeline. "John Ireland and Michael A. Corrigan", OSV Newsweekly, August 28, 2009". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Moses, Paul (November 13, 2017). "Mother Cabrini's American Welcome". Commonweal. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved October 13, 2020.

Sources

  • Joseph F. Mahoney and Peter J. Wosh, The Diocesan Journal of Michael Augustine Corrigan, Bishop of Newark, 1872–1880 (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1987)
  • Carl D. Hinrichsen, "The History of the Diocese of Newark, 1873–1901," (Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of America, 1962)
  • Robert Emmet Curran, Michael Augustine Corrigan and the Shaping of Conservative Catholicism in America, 1878–1902 (NY: Arno Press, 1978)
  • Thomas Shelley, The Archdiocese of New York: A Bicentennial History, 1808–2008 (France: Editions du Signe, 2007)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mooney, Joseph F. (1908). "Michael Augustine Corrigan". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Newark
1873–1880 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
–
 Coadjutor Archbishop of New York
1880–1885 		Succeeded by
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Preceded by Archbishop of New York
1885–1902 		Succeeded by
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