Patrick Manogue
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
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Patrick Manogue (May 28, 1831 – February 27, 1895) was a miner '49er, pioneer priest and the founding Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, California.
Patrick Manogue was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1831. Emigrating to the United States, he left college to support his siblings. Manogue ventured out to Moore's Flat, California where he prospected for gold. One of his fellow "ordinary miners", John Mackay, the grandfather of Ellin Mackay, wife of Irving Berlin, would spearhead the building of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament starting in 1887.
After four years of prospecting, Manogue earned enough to pay his tuition at Saint Sulpice Seminary, Paris. The Archdiocese of San Francisco's Archbishop, Joseph Alemany, recommended the "gold miner" novice. Manogue admired its cathedral, which would become the model for his future diocese, and was ordained a priest on December 21, 1861.
Manogue was ordained to the priesthood on December 21, 1861.Bishop Eugene O'Connell was instrumental in choosing then Father Manogue to start a ministry in the Nevada Territory. Along with O'Connell, Manogue encouraged the Daughters of Charity to help populate pioneer churches in Nevada. Manogue returned to Nevada and built the "first St. Mary’s in the Mountains" in 1862. O'Connell felt that a former miner was best suited for a ministry to the growing Nevada mining community.
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