Matthew Harkins

Matthew Harkins ( born November 17 1845 in Boston, USA, † May 25, 1921 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, USA ) was Bishop of Providence.

Life

Matthew Harkins attended schools in the Boston Tremont Street, in Quincy and 1859-1869 the Latin School in Boston. He then studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, and the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris. He received on 22 May 1869, the sacrament of Holy Orders. Matthew Harkins then studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

1870 Harkins curate at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Salem. From 1876 to 1884 he was pastor of St. Malachi in Arlington. This was followed by Matthew Harkins, pastor of the parish of St. James in Boston.

On February 11, 1887, he was named Pope Leo XIII. Bishop of Providence. The Archbishop of Boston, John Joseph Williams, donated to him on 14 April of the same year in the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Providence episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Hartford, Lawrence Stephen McMahon, and the Bishop of Springfield, Patrick Thomas O'Reilly.