Michael Corrigan

Michael Augustine Corrigan ( born August 13, 1839 in Newark, New Jersey; † May 5, 1902 in New York) was Archbishop of New York.

Life

Corrigan, like most of his predecessors, of Irish descent, studied at St. Mary's College and Seminary in Maryland. In 1859 he went with eleven other students to Rome, where he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Newark on September 19, 1863. A year later he returned to Newark, where he was professor of dogmatics and Vicar General until 1873. On February 14, 1873 Corrigan was then Pope Pius IX. appointed bishop of Newark. The episcopal ordination he received on 4 May of that year by Cardinal John McCloskey, the former Archbishop of New York. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Brooklyn, John Loughlin, and the Bishop of Louisville, William George McCloskey.

Since the health of the 70 -year-old Archbishop of New York gradually deteriorated, the 41 -year-old Corrigan was appointed Koadjutorerzbischof of New York and Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palestine on October 1, 1880. At the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore ( 1884), he was the cardinal, who died a year later. Corrigan became his successor. Like its popular predecessors, he established a new Catholic Seminars and let the St. Patrick's Cathedral finish final. 1886 there was a controversy between him and the teacher Edward McGlynn, who also wanted to bring socialism in his teaching. After consultation mt Pope Leo XIII. Corrigan excommunicated the priest. He also met with resistance. The controversy over socialism was far from over with McGlynns excommunication: 1892 Edward McGlynn was rehabilitated and began a discussion about Catholic teaching again.

Corrigan opened in 1896 a new theological seminary and celebrated on May 4, 1898, the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination. In 1902, when he returned from a trip to the Bahamas Islands, he suffered a severe head cold and an accident. He died the same year at the age of 62 years.

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