Philip Joseph Garrigan

Garrigan was born in Whitegate, Ireland in 1840. He came to the United States with his parents, and received his elementary education in the public schools of Lowell, Massachusetts.[1] He pursued his classical course at St. Charles's College, Ellicott City, Maryland, and courses of philosophy and theology at the New York Provincial Seminary of St. Joseph's at Troy, where he was ordained on June 11, 1870.[2]

After a short term as curate of St. John's Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, he was appointed director of the Troy seminary for three years; and was for fourteen years afterwards pastor of St. Bernard's Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1888 he was appointed first vice-rector of the Catholic University at Washington, D.C., which position he also held for fourteen years.

He was named Bishop of Sioux City on March 21, 1902, and consecrated at the see of his home diocese, Springfield, Massachusetts, on May 25 of the same year,[1] by the Right Rev. T.D. Beaven, and on June 18 following took possession of his see. He authored the article on the Diocese of Sioux City for the Catholic Encyclopedia.[2]

He died in Sioux City on October 4, 1919 at age 79.[1]

This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article "Sioux City" by Bishop Philip Garrigan himself, a publication now in the public domain.