Fergus Patrick McEvay

Fergus Patrick McEvay (born December 8, 1852 in Lindsay , Ontario , † May 10, 1911 in Toronto ) was a Canadian Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Toronto .

Life

His parents were Michael McEvay and Mary Lehane, who had settled in Canada before the wave of emigration caused by the great famine in Ireland in the late 1840s. His father, who also traded as a farmer, died in 1855, and the family then moved to Ennismore , although Fergus Patrick McEvay attended the Catholic elementary school in Lindsay. In 1821 he lived in Ennismore with the family of Thomas Lehane, a hotel owner, and worked as a laborer.

Three years later he entered St Michael's College in Toronto, where he received a classical education. After graduating in 1878, he began his theological studies and from 1878 attended St Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee , but continued his studies at St Michael's College a year later . Between 1880 and 1882 he completed his theological studies at the Major Seminary in Montréal.

On July 9, 1882 Fergus Patrick McEvay received in Trenton , the ordination by James Vincent Cleary , the Bishop of Kingston . On July 25th of the same year the new priest went to the newly established bishopric of Peterborough and became a pastor in Fenelon Falls . In 1887 he was appointed pastor at Peterborough Cathedral. In 1889, Bishop Thomas Joseph Dowling to the See of Hamilton was transferred McEvay went with him and was out of the clergy of the diocese of Kingston exkardiniert and incardinated in the Diocese of Hamilton. In 1890 he became Vicar General of the Diocese of Hamilton. In 1893 he accompanied Bishop Dowling on his ad limina visit to Rome, where McEvay was appointed papal chamberlain .

Pope Leo XIII. Fergus appointed Patrick McEvay Bishop of London, Ontario on May 27, 1899 . He was ordained bishop on August 6, 1899 in London by the Archbishop of Toronto Denis T. O'Connor ; Co-consecrators were Thomas Joseph Dowling, Bishop of Hamilton, and Richard Alphonsus O'Connor , Bishop of Peterborough. On April 13, 1908, Fergus Patrick McEvay was called to be Archbishop of Toronto.

He died in the episcopate and was buried in the chapel of St Augustine's Seminary in Toronto.

literature

• Mark G. McGowan: McEvay, Fergus Patrick . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . tape 14: 1911-1920 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1998, ISBN 0-8020-3476-4 ( English , French ).

Web links

• Entry on Fergus Patrick McEvay on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 3, 2019.
• Fergus Patrick McEvay in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Denis T. O'Connor	Archbishop of Toronto 1908–1911	Neil McNeil
Denis T. O'Connor	Bishop of London in Ontario 1899–1908	Michael Francis Fallon