Lawrence Scanlan
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The Most Reverend Lawrence Scanlan |
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| Bishop of Salt Lake City | |
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| See | Salt Lake City |
| Appointed | November 23, 1886 |
| In office | June 29, 1887 |
| Predecessor | Post Established |
| Successor | Joseph Sarsfield Glass |
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| Born |
September 28, 1843 Ballytarsna, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Died | May 10, 1915 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Patrick and Catherine (née Ryan) Scanlan |
| Alma mater | All Hallows College |
| Motto | Euntes Docete Omnes Gentes (Go and teach all nations) |
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Styles of Lawrence Scanlan |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
Lawrence Scanlan (September 28, 1843 – May 10, 1915) was an Irish Roman Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah (1887-1915).
Lawrence Scanlan was born in Ballytarsna, near Cashel, County Tipperary, to Patrick and Catherine (née Ryan) Scanlan. He studied at All Hallows College in Dublin, where he was ordained to the priesthood on June 28, 1868. He departed for the United States the following July, later arriving at the Archdiocese of San Francisco in California in November. He then served as a curate at St. Patrick's Church and later at St. Mary's Cathedral. In 1869 he became pastor of Pioche, Nevada.
After briefly returning to California to serve in Petaluma, Scanlan volunteered for the mission in the Utah Territory, where he arrived at Salt Lake City in August 1873. There was then only one Catholic church in the territory, serving the nearly 800 members largely scattered among the region's various mining camps. Traveling by horseback, stagecoach, or rail, he developed a fairly regular circuit in which he visited the mining camps at Park City, Bingham Canyon, Mercur, , Ophir, and Silver Reef at least once a month. Scanlan introduced the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Indiana, and founded St. Mary's Academy and later Holy Cross Hospital in 1875. He opened numerous parishes and schools, and also established All Hallows College, Kearns-St. Ann's Orphanage, and Judge Mercy Hospital. He even celebrated Mass at the LDS tabernacle in St. George, Utah in 1879.
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