- John Quinlan
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name=John Quinlan
dipstyle=The Most Reverend
offstyle=His Excellency
relstyle=Monsignor
deathstyle=not applicable |Bishop John Quinlan (b.October 19 1826 , Cloyne, Ireland - d.March 9 1883 ,Alabama ) was aRoman Catholic bishop and the second Bishop of Mobile.He emigrated to the United States in 1844 and was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cincinnati on August 30, 1852. He was named Bishop of Mobile on
September 26 1859 , and consecrated onDecember 4 1859 , by ArchbishopAntoine Blanc inSt. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans .In his diocese he found twelve churches and fourteen schools for which he had only eight secular priests and he therefore brought from Ireland eleven young candidates for the priesthood. Bishop Quinlan's administration fell upon the storm days of the
American Civil War . After thebattle of Shiloh , he hastened on a special train to the blood-stained battle-ground and ministered to the temporal and spiritual wants of North and South.After the war diocesan activities were crippled. Nevertheless, besides repairing ruined churches, Bishop Quinlan built the portico of the Mobile cathedral, founded St. Patrick's and St. Mary's churches in the same city, and established churches in Huntsville, Decatur, Tuscumbia, Florence, Cullman, Birmingham, Eufaula, Whistler, and Toulminville.
In April 1876, Bishop Quinlan invited the
Benedictines from St. Vincent's Abbey,Pennsylvania to the diocese, and they settled atCullman, Alabama .He died
March 9 1883 , and is entombed under theportico of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception inMobile, Alabama .Quinlan Hall, on the campus of
Spring Hill College , is named in his honor.References
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bquinlan.html Catholic-Hierarchy.org data]
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10410a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia bio]
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