Eugene O'Connell was the first Catholic bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley, California.
19 Facts About Eugene O'Connell
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Eugene O'Connell was rector of the diocesan seminary, and later appointed to the Vicariate of Marysville, up in the gold fields.
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Eugene O'Connell was born June 15,1815, the eldest of four children, in the parish of Kingscourt, County Cavan.
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Eugene O'Connell studied at the diocesan seminary, St Finian's College in Navan, then at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and was ordained to the priesthood on May 21,1842.
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Eugene O'Connell taught at the seminary in Navan from 1843 to 1846.
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Eugene O'Connell arrived in San Francisco on July 1,1851, and was appointed pastor of Mission Santa Inez, where he was director of the diocesan seminary.
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Eugene O'Connell had to learn Spanish to serve the parishioners and teach the seminarians.
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In November 1852, Eugene O'Connell was assigned to the Church of St Francis on Vallejo Street in San Francisco.
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Eugene O'Connell left San Francisco in May 1854 and was appointed Dean of All Hallows.
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On September 26,1860 Pope Pius IX appointed Eugene O'Connell was Vicar Apostolic of the newly established Vicariate Apostolic of Marysville.
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Eugene O'Connell journeyed to Rome to ask to be relieved of the appointment.
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In 1868 the vicariate was erected into the Diocese of Grass Valley and Bishop Eugene O'Connell was transferred to this title 3 Feb of that year.
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Eugene O'Connell recruited a number of priests to serve in his diocese from All Hallows in Dublin.
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Eugene O'Connell served as a Council Father to the First Vatican Council convoked by Pope Pius IX.
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Eugene O'Connell attended the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884.
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Eugene O'Connell was instrumental in choosing then Father Patrick Manogue to start a ministry in the Nevada Territory.
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Eugene O'Connell dedicated Saint Mary in the Mountains Catholic Church in 1864.
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Eugene O'Connell died in Los Angeles, California, on December 4,1891.
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The remains of Eugene O'Connell were moved from Los Angeles to Sacramento over a hundred years after his death.