Lawrence Stephen McMahon
| Most Rev. Lawrence Stephen McMahon | |
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| Bishop of Hartford | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Hartford |
| In office | August 10, 1879—August 21, 1893 |
| Predecessor | Thomas Galberry, O.S.A. |
| Successor | Michael Tierney |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | March 24, 1860 |
| Consecration | August 10, 1879 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 26, 1835 St. John, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Died | August 21, 1893 (aged 57) Lakeville, Connecticut, United States |
Lawrence Stephen McMahon (December 26, 1835 – August 21, 1893) was a Canadian-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Hartford from 1879 until his death in 1893.
Lawrence McMahon was born in St. John, New Brunswick, and in 1839 came with his parents to the United States, where he was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Receiving his early education at the public schools of Boston, he entered Holy Cross College in Worcester at age 15, and remained there until the college was destroyed by fire in 1852. He then studied rhetoric at Montreal, Quebec, and philosophy at Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the College of Aix in France and then completed his theological studies in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on March 24, 1860.
McMahon was first assigned as a curate at Holy Cross Cathedral in Boston, and served as chaplain to the 28th Massachusetts regiment during the Civil War from 1863 to 1865. Returning from the war, he served as pastor in Bridgewater and then in New Bedford, where he erected St. Lawrence's Church and a hospital under the care of the Sisters of Mercy. He was also named the first vicar general of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1872.
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