John Walsh (Archbishop)

Archbishop John Walsh

John Walsh (born May 24, 1830 in Mooncoin , County Kilkenny , Ireland , † July 25, 1898 in Toronto ) was a Canadian Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Toronto .

Life

After attending St. John's College in Waterford , Ireland , he traveled to Canada in the fall of 1852, where he continued his studies at St. Sulpice Seminary in Montreal . On November 1, 1854 he was ordained a priest .

Pope Pius IX appointed him on June 4, 1867 bishop of the then Diocese of Sandwich in Ontario . The episcopal ordination donated him on November 10 of the same year in Toronto, the Archbishop of Québec Charles-François Baillargeon ; Co- consecrators were Ignace Bourget , Bishop of Montréal , and John Joseph Lynch CM, Bishop (later Archbishop) of Toronto. With the renaming of the Diocese of Sandwich, John Walsh became Bishop of London in Ontario on November 15, 1869 .

On August 13, 1889, John Walsh was raised to Archbishop of Toronto; he held this office until his death in 1898.

literature

• John P. Comiskey: My Heart's Best Wishes for You: A biography of Archbishop John Walsh . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-7735-4013-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Michael Power: Walsh, John . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . tape 12: 1891-1900 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1990, ISBN 0-8020-3460-8 ( English , French ).

Web links

• Entry for John Walsh on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Former Bishops of the Diocese of London. Diocese of London (Ontario) (English). 

predecessor	Office	successor
John Joseph Lynch	Archbishop of Toronto 1889–1898	Denis O'Connor CSB
Pierre Adolphe Pinsoneault	Bishop of London (Ontario) 1867–1889	Denis O'Connor CSB