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HUGHES, JOHN (1797-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGHES, See also:JOHN (1797-1864) , See also:American See also:Roman See also:Catholic divine, was See also:born in Annaloghan, Co. See also:Tyrone, See also:Ireland, on the 24th of See also:June 1797. In 1817 he followed his See also:father to See also:Chambers-See also:burg, See also:Pennsylvania. He was ordained See also:deacon in 1825 and See also:priest in 1826; and as See also:vicar in St See also:Augustine's and other churches in See also:Philadelphia he took a prominent See also:part in the See also:defence of ecclesiastical authority against the See also:lay trustee See also:system. In 1837 he was consecrated coadjutor to See also:Bishop See also:Dubois in New See also:York. In the New York See also:diocese, of which he was made See also:administrator in 1839 and bishop in 1842, besides suppressing (1841) See also:church See also:control by lay trustees, he proved himself an active, almost pugnacious, See also:leader. His unsuccessful See also:attempt to build in Lafargeville, See also:Jefferson See also:county, a See also:seminary of St See also:Vincent de See also:Paul, was followed by the See also:transfer of the school to See also:Fordham, where St John's See also:College (now Fordham University) was established (1841), largely out of funds collected by him in See also:Europe in 1839-1840. His demand for See also:state support for parochial See also:schools was favoured by See also:Governor See also:Seward and was See also:half victorious: it was in this controversy that he was first accused of forming a Catholic party in politics. John See also:McCloskey was consecrated his coadjutor in 1844; in 1847 the diocese of New York was divided; and in 185o Hughes was named the first See also:archbishop of New York, with See also:suffragan bishops of See also:Boston, See also:Hartford, See also:Albany and See also:Buffalo. In the meantime, during the " Native American " disturbances of 1844, he had been viciously attacked together with his Church; he kept his parishioners in check, but bade them protect their places of See also:worship. His attitude was much the same at the See also:time of the See also:Anti-Popery outcry of the " Know-Nothings " in 1854. His See also:early anti-See also:slavery views had been made much less See also:radical by his travels in the See also:South and in the See also:West Indies, but at the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he was strongly See also:pro-See also:Union, and- in 1861 he went to See also:France to counteract the See also:influence of the See also:Slidell See also:mission.

He met with success not only in France, but at See also:

Rome and in Ireland, where, however, he made strong anti-See also:English speeches. He died in New York See also:City on the 3rd of See also:January 1864. Hughes was a hard fighter and delighted in controversy. In 1826 he wrote An See also:Answer to Nine Objections Made by an See also:Anonymous Writer Against the Catholic See also:Religion: he was engaged in a See also:bitter debate with Dr John Brecke,lndge (Presbyterian), partly in letters published in 1833 and partly in a public discussion in Philadelphia in 1835, on the subject of civil and religious See also:liberty as affected by the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian " religions " ; in 1856, through his See also:organ, the See also:Metropolitan See also:Record, he did his best to discredit any attempts by the Catholic See also:press to forward either the move- ment to " Americanize " the Catholic Church or that to disseminate the principles of " See also:Young Ireland." His See also:works were edited by Laurence Kehoe (2 vols., New York, 1864-1865). See John R. G. Hassard, See also:Life of the Most Rev. John Hughes (New York, 1866) ; and See also:Henry A. Brann, John Hughes (New York, 1894), a briefer See also:sketch, in " The Makers of See also:America " See also:series.

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