William A. Hickey

William Augustine Hickey ( born May 13, 1869 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, † October 4, 1933 ) was Bishop of Providence.

Life

William Augustine Hickey studied after graduating from Holy Cross College in Boston at the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris and then at St. John Seminary in Brighton. On December 22, 1893 he donated the Archbishop of Boston, John Joseph Williams, in the Boston Cathedral the sacrament of priestly ordination for the Diocese of Springfield.

On March 10, 1919, he was named Pope Benedict XV. Titular Bishop of Claudiopolis in Isauria and Coadjutor Bishop of Providence. The Bishop of Springfield, Thomas Daniel Beaven, donated to him on 10 April of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Portland, Louis Sebastian Walsh, and the Bishop of Fall River, Daniel Francis Feehan.

Bishop Matthew Harkins put him on the day of consecration the administration of the Diocese of Providence as an administrator. With the death of Bishop Matthew Harkins on May 21, 1921, he followed them, as Bishop of Providence.

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