The New Student's Reference Work/Corrigan, Michael Augustine

ARCHBISHOP CORRIGAN

Cor′rigan, Michael Augustine, Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, was born at Newark, N. J., Aug. 13, 1839, and educated at St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del. In 1863 he was ordained to the priesthood at Rome, and, after holding the chair of dogmatic theology and subsequently the presidency in Seton Hall College, Orange, N. J., he was appointed by Pope Pius IX to the see of Newark in 1873. Seven years later he became coadjutor to Cardinal McCloskey, and, on the death of the latter, was made metropolitan of the diocese of New York in 1885. He died on May 5th, 1902.