Charles Michael Baggs

Charles Michael Baggs (born May 21, 1806 in Belville , County Westmeath , Ireland , † October 16, 1845 in Bath ) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and Vicar Apostolic .

Life

His parents were the Protestant lawyer Charles Baggs († 1820) and his Catholic wife Eleanor Kyan. After the death of his father Charles Michael Baggs was in Collegio Inglese educated in Rome, where he on 5 December 1830 by Cardinal Giacinto Placido Zurla the ordination received. In 1840 he succeeded the later Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman as head of the English College. On November 22nd, 1843 he was appointed papal chamberlain and entered the service of the curia as consultor of the index congregation .

Pope Gregory XVI appointed Charles Michael Baggs on January 9, 1844 titular Bishop of Pella and Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic Western District in England . He was ordained bishop on January 28th of the same year by Giacomo Filippo Fransoni , Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation Propaganda Fide ; Co-consecrators were Bishops George Hilary Brown and William Bernard Allen Collier OSB .

The following year Charles Michael Baggs died in Prior Park near Bath, where he was initially buried. His bones were later transferred to Bristol.

Publications

• A letter addressed to the rev. R. Burgers, BD, the Protestant Chaplain in Rome. Rome 1836.
• A discourse on Matt. XVI, 18-19 on the Supremacy of the Romane Pontife delivered in the Church of Gesù e Maria, in the Corso, Rome, on Sunday, Feb.7, 1836. Rome 1836.
• The ceremonies ot the Holy Week at the Vatican ans St John Laterans described and illustrated from History and Antiquities. Rome 1839.
• The Pontifical Mass, sung at St Peter's Church, on the festival of SS. Peter and Paul, and Christmas Day described and illustrated, with a Dissertation on ecclesiastical vestments. Rome 1840.
• Funeral Oration delivered at the solemn obsequies of the lady Guendaline Talbot, Princess Borghese, in St Charles' Church, in the Corso, on Dec. 23 1840. Rome 1841.
• Dissertazione sul sistema teologico degli Anglicani detti Puseyani. In: Annali delle scienze religious , XV, 43, of June 30, 1842.
• Dissertazione sullo stato odierno della Chiesa Anglicana. In: Annali delle scienze religious , XVII, 49, 1843.

literature

• Philippe Bountry: Officiers subalternes de la curie et consulteurs des congrégations romaines en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) (notes brèves) . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 50–52 (French, online edition [accessed December 8, 2018]).

Web links

• Entry on Charles Michael Baggs on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 8, 2018.

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter Augustine Baines OSB	Vicar Apostolic of the Western District 1844–1845	William Bernard Ullathorne OSB