Philip Joseph Garrigan

Philip Joseph Garrigan was an Irishborn prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa from 1902 to 1919.

Garrigan was born in Whitegate, Ireland in 1840, he came to the United States with his parents, and received his elementary education in the public schools of Lowell, Massachusetts. He pursued his classical course at St. Charless College, Ellicott City, Maryland, and courses of philosophy and theology at the Provincial Seminary of New York at Troy, where he was ordained on June 11, 1870. After a short term as curate of St. Johns Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, he was appointed director of the Troy seminary for three years and was for fourteen years afterwards pastor of St. Bernards Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1888 he was appointed first vicerector of the Catholic University at Washington, D.C., which position he also held for fourteen years. He was named Bishop of Sioux City on March 21, 1902, and consecrated at the see of his home diocese, Springfield, Massachusetts, on Mayof the same year, by the Right Rev. T.D. Beaven, and on Junefollowing took possess

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