Michael Corrigan
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His Excellency Michael Augustine Corrigan |
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| See | New York |
| Appointed | October 1, 1880 (Coadjutor) |
| Installed | October 10, 1885 |
| Term ended | May 5, 1902 |
| Predecessor | John McCloskey |
| Successor | John Murphy Farley |
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| Ordination | September 19, 1863 |
| Consecration | May 4, 1873 by John McCloskey |
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August 13, 1839 Newark, New Jersey |
| Died | May 5, 1902 (aged 62) New York, New York |
| Buried | St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
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| Motto | DOMINUS PETRA MEA (The Lord Is My Rock) |
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Styles of Michael Augustine Corrigan |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
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Priestly ordination
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| Date of ordination | 19 September 1863 |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | John McCloskey |
| Co-consecrators | William George McCloskey |
| Date of consecration | 4 May 1873 |
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Bishops consecrated by Michael Corrigan as principal consecrator
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| Winand Michael Wigger | 1881 |
| Patrick Anthony Ludden | 1887 |
| Charles Edward McDonnell | 1892 |
| Henry Gabriels | 1892 |
| Thomas Martin Aloysius Burke | 1894 |
| James Augustine McFaul | 1894 |
| John Murphy Farley | 1895 |
| James Edward Quigley | 1897 |
| John Joseph O’Connor | 1901 |
Michael Augustine Corrigan (August 13, 1839 – May 5, 1902) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the third archbishop of New York from 1885 to 1902.
Michael Augustine Corrigan was born August 13, 1839 in Newark, New Jersey, the fifth of nine children of Thomas and Mary English Corrigan, both of whom had emigrated from Ireland. Thomas Corrigan owned a retail grocery and liquor business in Newark, and the family's well-to-do status allowed Michael to pursue his educational interests. He attended St. Mary's College in Wilmington, Delaware, from 1853–1855, Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland from 1855–1857, spent a year in Europe, and received his bachelor's degree from Mount Saint Mary's in 1859. He became a member of the first class at the North American College in Rome, was ordained to the priesthood in September 1863 at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, and received a doctorate of divinity in 1864.
Corrigan returned to New Jersey in 1864, where he joined the faculty at Seton Hall College and the Immaculate Conception Seminary, both in South Orange, as professor of theology and history. He soon achieved a reputation within the hierarchy for sound scholarship, and he also provided pastoral care to Catholics in the Seton Hall vicinity. When Bernard J. McQuaid left Seton Hall in 1869 to assume his duties as bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, Corrigan succeeded him as college president and also became vicar general of the Diocese of Newark.
Corrigan succeeded James Roosevelt Bayley as bishop of Newark, becoming the second ordinary of the diocese. He was consecrated bishop on May 4, 1873. The diocese encompassed the entire state of New Jersey during Corrigan's tenure. He administered diocesan affairs during a time of rapid population growth, Roman Catholic institutional development, immigration from Ireland and Germany, and considerable urbanization in the northern part of the state.
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