Michael Augustine Corrigan

Michael Augustine Corrigan (before 1900)

Archbishop Corrigan's coat of arms

Michael Augustine Corrigan (born August 13, 1839 in Newark , New Jersey , † May 5, 1902 in New York ) was Archbishop of New York .

Life

Corrigan, like most of his predecessors of Irish descent , studied at St. Mary's College and Seminary in Maryland . In 1859 he went to Rome with eleven other students , where he was ordained a priest for the diocese of Newark on September 19, 1863 . A year later he returned to Newark, where he was professor of dogmatics and vicar general until 1873 . On February 14, 1873 Corrigan was then by Pope Pius IX. appointed Bishop of Newark. He received his episcopal ordination on May 4th of the same year by Cardinal John McCloskey , the then Archbishop of New York. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Brooklyn , John Loughlin , and the Bishop of Louisville , William George McCloskey .

As the health of the 70-year-old Archbishop of New York gradually deteriorated, the 41-year-old Corrigan was named Coadjutor Archbishop of New York and Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palestine on October 1, 1880 . At the third plenary council of Baltimore (1884) he represented the cardinal, who died a year later. Corrigan became his successor. Like his popular predecessor, he set up new Catholic seminaries and had St. Patrick's Cathedral completed for good.

In 1886 there was a controversy between him and the teacher Edward McGlynn , who wanted to bring socialism into his teaching. After consultation with Pope Leo XIII. Corrigan excommunicated the priest. This also met with resistance. The controversy over socialism was far from over with McGlynn's excommunication: in 1892 Edward McGlynn was rehabilitated and a discussion about Catholic education began again.

Corrigan opened a new theological seminary in 1896 and celebrated the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination on May 4, 1898. In 1902, when he was returning from a trip to the Bahamas Islands, he suffered a severe cold and an accident. He died on May 5, 1902 at the age of 62.

literature

• Joseph Mooney:  Michael Augustine Corrigan . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 4, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1908.

Web links

Commons : Michael Augustine Corrigan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Michael Augustine Corrigan on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 18, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
John Cardinal McCloskey	Archbishop of New York 1885–1902	John Murphy Cardinal Farley
James Roosevelt Bayley	Bishop of Newark 1873–1880	Winand M. Wigger