Charles Michael Baggs
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The Right Reverend Charles Michael Baggs |
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| Vicar Apostolic of the Western District | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 9 January 1844 |
| Term ended | 16 October 1845 |
| Predecessor | Peter Augustine Baines |
| Successor | William Bernard Ullathorne |
| Other posts | Titular Bishop of Pella |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | December 1830 (priest) by Giacinto Placido Zurla |
| Consecration | 28 January 1844 by Giacomo Filippo Fransoni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 May 1806 Belville, County Westmeath, Ireland |
| Died | 16 October 1845 (aged 39) Prior Park, near Bristol, England |
| Buried |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Charles Baggs and Eleanor Kyan |
Charles Michael Baggs (1806–1845) was a Roman Catholic bishop, controversialist, scholar and antiquary. He briefly served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England from 1844 to 1845.
He was born in Belville, County Westmeath, Ireland on 21 May 1806, the eldest son of Charles Baggs and Eleanor Kyan. His father was a Protestant barrister of Dublin (Ireland), who afterwards was judge of the court of vice-admiralty in Demerara, British Guyana (South America). His mother was the fourth daughter of John Howard Kyan of County Wicklow. Through his mother's family he is directly descended from the O'Cahans, a significant Irish clan in Ulster.
His father being a member of the Church of Ireland, he was sent to a Protestant academy at Englefield Green in Berkshire. Early in 1820, his father died suddenly at Demerara, three days after hearing of the death of a friend for whom he had become security for 60,000 shillings. Upon the news of this double calamity, Charles Baggs was removed by his mother from Englefield Green to a Roman Catholic seminary at Sedgley Park, Staffordshire in June 1820. Twelve months later, he was transferred, at the instance of Bishop William Poynter, to St. Edmund's College, Ware, Hertfordshire, as an ecclesiastical student.
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