1. Henry Cosgrove was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States.
15 Facts About Henry Cosgrove
1. 2.
Henry Cosgrove served as the second bishop of Diocese of Davenport in Iowa from 1884 to until his death in 1906.
3.
Henry Cosgrove was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on December 19,1834, to John and Bridget Cosgrove, both Irish immigrants The family moved to Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and then to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1845.
4.
Henry Cosgrove studied with Reverend Joseph Cretin, then vicar general of the Diocese of Dubuque, Cosgrove then attended St Mary's Seminary in Perry County, Missouri, for the classics, and the seminary at Carondelet, Missouri, for theology.
5.
Henry Cosgrove was incardinated, or transferred, to the new diocese on June 4,1881.
6.
St Margaret's was elevated to a cathedral and Henry Cosgrove became the cathedral's rector.
7.
However, after Henry Cosgrove's supporters learned of this maneuver, they persuaded the Vatican to wait on an appointment until it received a petition from the clergy that favored Henry Cosgrove.
8.
Henry Cosgrove was appointed the second bishop of Davenport on July 11,1884, by Pope Leo XIII, and was consecrated in St Margaret's Cathedral on September 14,1884, by Archbishop Patrick Feehan of Chicago.
9.
Henry Cosgrove was a friend of Archbishop John Ireland and was aligned with the more progressive wing of the American hierarchy.
10.
In 1884 Henry Cosgrove attended the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, which established the Baltimore Catechism.
11.
Henry Cosgrove established St Vincent's Home for orphans in 1895 in Davenport by the Congregation of the Humility of Mary in 1896.
12.
Henry Cosgrove supported the national Temperance Movement and called for a moral crusade in the diocese, especially in Davenport.
13.
Henry Cosgrove presided over the diocese's second synod the same year.
14.
Henry Cosgrove died of cancer on December 23,1906, in Davenport at age 72.
15.
Henry Cosgrove was the first native born bishop of the United States appointed to a see west of the Mississippi River.