James Augustine McFaul

James Augustine McFaul ( born June 6 1850 in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland, † June 16, 1917 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA) was Bishop of Trenton.

Life

James Augustine McFaul attended St. Vincent 's College in Latrobe and the St. Francis Xavier 's College in New York City. McFaul studied Catholic theology at Seton Hall College in South Orange. He received on May 26, 1877 Sacrament of Holy Orders.

James Augustine McFaul was private secretary to Bishop Michael Joseph O'Farrell. 1884 McFaul pastor of St. Mary, Star of the Sea in Long Branch. He became in 1892 Vicar General of the Diocese of Trenton.

On July 20, 1894, he was named Pope Leo XIII. Bishop of Trenton. The Archbishop of New York, Michael Augustine Corrigan, gave him on 18 October of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Rochester, Joseph Bernard John McQuaid, and the Bishop of Brooklyn, Charles Edward McDonnell.