Philip Joseph Garrigan was a Roman Catholic

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 clergyman.

Garrigan was born in Whitegate, Ireland

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 in 1840, he came to the United States

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 with his parents, and received his elementary education in the public schools of Lowell, Massachusetts

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. He pursued his classical

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 course at St. Charles's College

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, Ellicott City, Maryland

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, and courses of philosophy

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 and theology

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 at the Provincial Seminary of New York at Troy

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, where he was ordained

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 on 11 June 1870. After a short term as curate

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 of St. John's Church, Worcester, Massachusetts

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, he was appointed director of the Troy seminary for three years; and was for fourteen years afterwards pastor

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 of St. Bernard's Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

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. In the fall of 1888 he was appointed first vice-rector

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 of the Catholic University

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 at Washington, D.C.

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, which position he also held for fourteen years. He was named Bishop of Sioux City

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 on 21 March 1902, and consecrated at the see of his home diocese, Springfield, Massachusetts

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, on 25 May of the same year, by the Right Rev. T.D. Beaven

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, and on 18 June following took possession of his see. He died at age 79.
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This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

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article "Sioux City" by Bishop Philip Garrigan himself, a publication now in the public domain

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