CORRIGAN, MICHAEL AUGUSTINE. — Archbishop, b. at Newark (New Jersey), Aug. 13, 1839, d. at New York, May 5, 1900. President of Seton Hall College and vicar general of the diocese of Newark, he was consecrated bishop in 1873 and, thanks to his great administrative talents, was transferred to New York as coadjutor to the archbishop, Cardinal McCloskey, whom he succeeded in 1885.
A rigid defender of the rights of the Church, during the municipal elections of 1886 he expressed his disapproval of a candidate who professed ideas contrary to the Catholic religion on the question of property. When the pastor of St. Stephen’s Church, E. McGlynn, intervened in favor of the candidate, the archbishop had to suspend him. The rebellious priest, after making an act of submission, was reinstated in his position. During the 17 years of his administration, the diocese of New York was adorned with new churches, enriched by a theological seminary built at Dunwoodie in 1896, and flourished both in the increase of buildings for religious and charitable use and in the abundant harvest of pastoral activity.