Thomas Joseph Dowling
Thomas Joseph Dowling | |
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Bishop of Peterborough | |
Diocese | Hamilton |
Installed | 1889 |
Term ended | 1924 |
Predecessor | James Joseph Carbery |
Successor | |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Peterborough, Ontario (1886–1889) |
Orders | |
Ordination | August 7, 1864 |
Consecration | May 1, 1887 |
Personal details | |
Born | Shanagolden, County Limerick, Ireland | February 28, 1840
Died | August 6, 1924 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | (aged 84)
Buried | Holy Sepulchre Cemetery |
Coat of arms |
Thomas Joseph Dowling (28 February 1840 – 6 August 1924) was a Canadian Catholic priest and the second Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Peterborough and the fourth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario.
Biography[]
He was born in Ireland, and educated at St. Michael's College, Toronto. He was parish-priest at Paris, Ontario, for 22 years, administrator of the diocese of Hamilton in 1883, he was named bishop of Peterborough in 1887 and on May 1, received his episcopal consecration at , Hamilton,[1] from Archbishop John Joseph Lynch, C.M., with Bishops James Joseph Carbery and serving as co-consecrators. He was transferred to the bishopric of Hamilton in 1889.
References[]
- ^ Spetz, Theobald. The Catholic Church in Waterloo County. Book I : with a summary history of the Diocese of Hamilton. Book II : and a list of the clergy who labored in its district from the beginning to the present. Book III. Our Roots / Nos Racines. p. 219. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015 – via www.ourroots.ca.
- "Thomas Joseph Dowling". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). . . Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co.
External links[]
- Catholic-Hierarchy entry[self-published source]
Categories:
- 1840 births
- 1924 deaths
- Roman Catholic bishops of Peterborough
- Irish emigrants to Canada (before 1923)
- 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada
- Roman Catholic bishops of Hamilton, Ontario
- Canadian Roman Catholic bishop stubs