Patrick William Riordan

Patrick William Riordan was a Canadianborn clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1884 until his death in 1914.

Patrick Riordan was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, to Matthew and Mary Riordan. In 1848, at age seven, he moved with his parents to the United States, settling in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at St. Marys of the Lake University in Chicago and afterwards at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, from where he graduated in 1858. He was then sent to Rome as one of the original twelve students of the Pontifical North American College. However, after suffering a severe case of malaria, he left Rome and completed his studies at the Colonial Seminary in Paris and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 1864.

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