Michael John Hoban

Michael John Hoban (born June 6, 1853 in Waterloo Village , New Jersey , † November 13, 1926 in Scranton , Pennsylvania ) was Bishop of Scranton .

Life

Michael John Hoban grew up in Hawley, Pennsylvania and studied from 1868 at various Catholic seminaries in Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts . In 1875 he was sent to the Pontifical North America College in Rome for further studies . There he was on 22 May 1880 by Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta for ordained priests . Hoban returned to the Diocese of Scranton and worked there from 1885 as a parish pastor. After establishing the Ward of Ashley , Pennsylvania, he was appointed first parish priest there in 1887.

Pope Leo XIII. appointed him on February 1, 1896 titular bishop of Alalis and appointed him coadjutor bishop of Scranton. He was ordained bishop on March 22nd of the same year by Cardinal Francesco di Paola Satolli , Apostolic Delegate in the United States. Co- consecrators were Thomas McGovern , Bishop of Harrisburg and Thomas Daniel Beaven , Bishop of Springfield . After the death of William O'Hara on February 3, 1899, he followed this as Bishop of Scranton. During Hoban's tenure, the Catholic influence in Scranton increased, so the number of parishes and pastors doubled between 1899 and 1926. By 1911, the number of the Catholic population also rose from 135,000 to 265,000. Hoban also experienced an ethnic division in Pennsylvania, which he was able to contain in his diocese. He died in 1926 at the age of 73 and was buried in Scranton Cathedral.

Web links

• Entry for Michael John Hoban on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrew Brennan:  Diocese of Scranton . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 13, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1912.
2. ^ Rev. Michael John Hoban (1853-1926) in findagrave.com

predecessor	Office	successor
William O'Hara	Bishop of Scranton 1899–1926	Thomas Charles O'Reilly