Nicolaus Aloysius Gallagher was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Galveston from 1892 until his death in 1918.
One of eleven children, Nicolaus Gallagher was born in Temperanceville, Belmont County, Ohio, to John and Mary Ann Gallagher. At agewas placed under the care of the pastor of Coshocton, who tutored him in English, grammar, Latin, and Greek for six years. In 1862 he entered Mount St. Marys of the West Seminary at Cincinnati, where he studied philosophy and theology. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Sylvester Horton Rosecrans on December 25, 1868.
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