William George McCloskey
| William G. McCloskey | |
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| Bishop of Louisville (1868–1909) |
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| Other posts | Rector of the American College, Rome (1860–1868) |
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| Ordination | October 6, 1852 by John Hughes |
| Consecration | May 24, 1868 by Karl-August von Reisach |
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| Born |
November 10, 1823 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | September 17, 1909 (aged 85) |
William George McCloskey (10 November, 1823 – 17 September, 1909) was an American Catholic priest, who became Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky.
He was sent to Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1835. In May 1850, he was ordained subdeacon at that seminary by Samuel Eccleston, Archbishop of Baltimore, and on October 6, 1852 was ordained priest by Bishop John Hughes in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. He said his first Mass in the basement of the Church of the Nativity, of which his brother George was then pastor, and remained there ten months as assistant. Then, from a desire to live in the seminary cloister, he returned with the consent of his superiors to Mount St. Mary's, where he taught moral theology, Scripture, and Latin for about six years.
He was appointed, December 1, 1859, the first rector of the American College at Rome, being the unanimous choice of the American bishops. He reached Rome in March 1860. Georgetown University had shortly before conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. McCloskey's administration of the American College included the period of the American Civil War. There were serious divisions in the student body.
He was rector until his promotion to the See of Louisville in May 1868, being consecrated bishop in the chapel of the college on May 24 of that year by Cardinal von Reisach, Archbishop of Munich, Bavaria, assisted by Mons. Xavier de Mérode, minister of Pope Pius IX, and by Mons. Salvatore Vitelleschi, Archbishop of Osimo and Cingoli.
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