Raymond Joseph Gallagher
Raymond Joseph Gallagher (November 19, 1912 – March 7, 1991) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.
Raymond Gallagher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Hugh and Ella (née Reedy) Gallagher.[1] He was educated at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish School (1918–26) and Cathedral Latin High School (1926–30).[1] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from John Carroll University in 1934, and attended St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1934 to 1939.[1] He was ordained to the priesthood on March 25, 1939.[2]
Gallagher was a curate at St. Colman Church in Cleveland (1939–44) and a chaplain to the United States Navy during World War II (1944–46).[3] In 1948, he earned a Master of Social Work degree from Loyola University Chicago and became assistant director of diocesan Catholic Charities.[1] Pope Pius XII named him a papal chamberlain in 1955.[1] Between 1958 and 1959, he was a member of the President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Commission on Child Welfare, becoming chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth in 1960.[3] He was general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Charities from 1961 to 1965.[3]
On June 21, 1965, Gallagher was appointed the third Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana by Pope Paul VI.[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 11 from Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, with Bishops Leo Christopher Byrne and Clarence George Issenmann serving as co-consecrators.[2] After seventeen years as bishop, he resigned on October 26, 1982.[2] He died at age 78.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Curtis, Georgina Pell (1961). The American Catholic Who's Who XIV. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Bishop Raymond Joseph Gallagher". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Raymond J. Gallagher, Catholic Bishop, 78". The New York Times. 1991-03-09.
| Preceded by John Carberry |
Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana 1965—1982 |
Succeeded by George Avis Fulcher |