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MICHAEL AUGUSTINE CORRIGAN (1839-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 197 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL See also:AUGUSTINE See also:CORRIGAN (1839-1902)  , third See also:archbishop of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic archdiocese of New See also:York, in the See also:United States, was See also:born in See also:Newark, New See also:Jersey, on the13th of See also:August 1839 . In 1859 he graduated at See also:Mount St See also:Mary's See also:College, Emmittsburg, See also:Maryland, and began his studies for the priesthood as the first of the twelve students with whom the See also:American College at See also:Rome was opened . On the 19th of See also:September 1863 he was ordained See also:priest, and in 1864 obtained the degree of D.D . Returning to See also:America, he was appointed See also:professor of Dogmatic See also:Theology and Sacred Scripture, and director of the ecclesiastical See also:seminary of See also:Seton See also:Hall College at See also:South See also:Orange, New Jersey; soon afterwards he was made See also:vice-See also:president of the institution; and in 1868 became president, succeeding Rev . See also:Bernard J . M`Quaid (b . 1823), the first Roman Catholic See also:bishop of See also:Rochester . In See also:October 1868 See also:Corrigan became See also:vicar-See also:general of Newark, a See also:diocese then including all the See also:state of New Jersey . When Archbishop Bayley was transferred to the see of See also:Baltimore in 1873, See also:Pius IX. appointed Corrigan bishop of Newark . In 1876 he resigned the See also:presidency of Seton Hall College . In 188o Bishop Corrigan was made coadjutor, with the right of See also:succession, to See also:Cardinal See also:McCloskey, archbishop of New York, under the See also:title of archbishop of See also:Petra; and thereafter nearly all the See also:practical See also:work of the archdiocese See also:fell to his hands . He was at the See also:time the youngest archbishop in the Catholic See also:Church in America .

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death of Cardinal McCloskey in 1885 Archbishop Corrigan became See also:metropolitan of the diocese of New York . He died on the 5th of May 1902 . He was a See also:scholar of much erudition, with See also:great See also:power of administrative organization, See also:simple, generous and kindly in See also:character . The earlier years of his archiepiscopate were disturbed by his controversy with See also:Edward McGlynn (1839-1900), a New York priest (and a See also:fellow-student with Corrigan at Rome), who disapproved of parochial See also:schools, refused to go to Rome for examination, and was excommunicated in See also:July 1887, but returned to the church five years later . See See also:Michael See also:Augustine Corrigan: A Memorial, with See also:biographical See also:sketch by See also:John A . Mooney (New York, 1902) .

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