Horace W. B. Donegan
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The Right Reverend Horace William Baden Donegan CBE |
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| Bishop of New York | |
| Church | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese | New York |
| In office | 1950—1972 |
| Predecessor | Charles Kendall Gilbert |
| Successor | Paul Moore, Jr. |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1928 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 17, 1900 Matlock Bath, Derbyshire |
| Died | November 11, 1991 (aged 91) Sanibel, Florida |
| Previous post |
Coadjutor Bishop of New York Bishop |
Horace William Baden Donegan (May 17, 1900—November 11, 1991) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and served as the Bishop of New York from 1950 to 1972.
Donegan was born at Cordella, the family home of his parents Horace George Donegani and Emma (Pembroke) Hand in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire; his father Horace George Donegani was a butcher who ran Donegani and Sons Butchers on the South Parade in Matlock Bath. At the age of ten, he and his family moved to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland. His last name then was changed from "Donegani" to "Donegan". He initially pursued a career as a stage actor, but after falling in love with the daughter of his landlady (infuriated at the thought of an actor as her son-in-law) he decided on an ecclesiastical path, although he never married.
He studied at Harvard Divinity School, and did his undergraduate work at St. Stephen's College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He later studied theology at Oxford University and obtained his divinity degree in 1927 from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Donegan was ordained to the priesthood on May 28, 1928, and then served as curate of All Saints' Church in Worcester, Massachusetts for two years. He was rector of Christ Church in Baltimore until 1933, when he was made rector of St. James' Episcopal Church in Manhattan.
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