John Joseph Hughes
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The Most Reverend Dr. John Joseph Hughes, D.D. |
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| Archbishop of New York | |
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| See | New York |
| Installed | December 20, 1842 |
| Term ended | January 3, 1864 |
| Predecessor | John Dubois, S.S. |
| Successor | John McCloskey |
| Other posts | Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of New York and Titular Bishop of Basilinopolis (1838–1842); Priest of the Diocese of Philadelphia (1826-1838) |
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| Ordination | October 15, 1826 by Henry Conwell |
| Consecration | January 7, 1838 by John Dubois, S.S. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 24, 1797 Annaloghan, County Tyrone, Kingdom of Ireland |
| Died | January 3, 1864 (aged 66) Manhattan, New York City |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Parents | Patrick Hughes & Margaret McKenna |
| Alma mater | Mount St. Mary's Seminary |
John Joseph Hughes (June 24, 1797 – January 3, 1864) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the fourth Bishop and first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, serving between 1842 and his death in 1864, and founded Fordham University in 1841.
A native of Ireland, Hughes was born and raised in the south of County Tyrone. He emigrated to the United States in 1817, and became a priest in 1826 and a bishop in 1838. A figure of national prominence, he exercised great moral and social influence, and presided over a period of explosive growth for Catholicism in New York. He was regarded as "the best known, if not exactly the best loved, Catholic bishop in the country." He became known as "Dagger John", both for his following the Catholic practice wherein a bishop precedes his signature with a cross, as well as for his aggressive personality.
Hughes was born in the hamlet of Annaloghan, near Aughnacloy, in County Tyrone, part of the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland. He was the third of seven children of Patrick and Margaret (née McKenna) Hughes. In reference to the anti-Catholic penal laws of Ireland, he later observed that, prior to his baptism, he had lived the first five days of his life on terms of "social and civil equality with the most favored subjects of the British Empire." He and his family suffered religious persecution in their native land; his late sister was denied a Catholic burial conducted by a priest, and Hughes himself was nearly attacked by a group of Orangemen when he was about fifteen. He was sent with his elder brothers to a day school in the nearby village of Augher, and afterwards attended a grammar school in Aughnacloy.
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