John Bernard MacGinley explained

John Bernard MacGinley
Honorific Prefix:The Most Reverend
Birth Date:August 19, 1871 County Donegal, Ireland
Death Date:October 18, 1969 (aged 98) County Donegal, Ireland
Ordination:June 8, 1895
Ordained By:Edmund Stonor
Consecration:May 10, 1910
Consecrated By:Diomede Falconio
Motto:Scio Cui Credidi
Province:Camarines Sur
Diocese:Caceres
Appointed:April 2, 1910
Term End:March 24, 1924
Predecessor:Jorge Barlin
Successor:Francisco Javier Reyes
Other Post:Bishop of Monterey-Fresno (March 24, 1924 – September 26, 1932)

Titular Bishop of Croae (September 26, 1932 - October 18 1969)

Honorific Suffix:Bishop of Nueva Cáceres
Religion:Roman Catholic

John Bernard MacGinley (August 19, 1871  - October 18, 1969) was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Nueva Caceres (1910 – 1924) and Bishop of Monterey-Fresno (1924 – 1932).

Biography

John MacGinley was born in County Donegal, the sixth of thirteen children of Thomas Colin and Margaret Theresa (née Sinnott) MacGinley.[1] His father served as principal of Croagh National School, and was author of General Biology and several works on folklore and scenery of western Donegal.[2] He was educated at St Eunan's Seminary, Letterkenny and Blackrock College, Dublin, in his native country, and at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.[1]

While in Rome, MacGinley was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Edmund Stonor on June 8, 1895.[3] He earned a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1896, and came to the United States that same year.[1] He then served as a curate at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until 1898, when he became professor of Latin and moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.[1] He remained at St. Charles for five years, and was made rector of the seminary at Vigan City in the Philippines in 1905.[1] In 1910, he returned to Philadelphia, where he became a curate at St. Charles Church.[1]

On April 2, 1910, MacGinley was appointed Bishop of Nueva Caceres in the Philippines by Pope Pius X.[3] He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 10 from Archbishop Diomede Falconio, with Bishops John Edmund Fitzmaurice and Edmond Francis Prendergast serving as co-consecrators.[3] Recalled to the United States, he was named Bishop of Monterey-Fresno, California, on March 24, 1924.[3] He later resigned due to ill health on September 26, 1932; he was appointed Titular Bishop of Croae on the same date.[3] He retired to Killybegs, in his native County Donegal, where he died at age 98.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Curtis, Georgina Pell. The American Catholic Who's Who. VII. 1947. Walter Romig. Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
  2. Book: Sinnott. Mary Elizabeth. Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families. 1905. J.B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia.
  3. News: Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Bishop John Bernard MacGinley.