John Joseph O'Connor (bishop of Newark)

John Joseph O'Connor ( born June 11, 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, † May 20, 1927 ) was the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark.

Life

O'Connor studied at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. After his studies and a training seminar at the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Louvain, he was ordained priest on 22 December 1877 in the Diocese of Newark

On May 24, 1901, Pope Leo XIII. O'Connor Bishop of Newark. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of New York, Michael Augustine Corrigan, on 25 July of the same year. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Brooklyn, Charles Edward McDonnell, and the Bishop of Trenton, James Augustine McFaul.