12 Facts About Peter Amigo

Peter Emmanuel Amigo was a Roman Catholic bishop in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Peter Amigo was born at Gibraltar, the ninth of eleven children born to Peter Lawrence and Emily Amigo.

Young Peter studied at St Edmund's College, Ware, and St Thomas's, Hammersmith.

Peter Amigo was for a short time at Stoke Newington, then professor at St Edmund's from September 1888 until July 1892.

Peter Amigo was then appointed assistant priest at Hammersmith from September 1892 to June 1896.

Peter Amigo was afterwards at Ss Mary and Michael Church, Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901.

Peter Amigo was then appointed rector of the mission at Walworth in the Diocese of Southwark.

Peter Amigo was consecrated as Bishop of Southwark by Cardinal Francis Bourne on 25 March 1904.

Bishop Peter Amigo imposed "minor excommunication" on the Modernist priest George Tyrrell and restricted the possibility of a full Catholic burial when Tyrrell died at Storrington in July 1909.

Tyrrell's friend, French priest Henri Bremond nonetheless, attended the burial, made the sign of the cross over the grave, and gave an address for which Peter Amigo then suspended him 'a divinis'.

Peter Amigo founded the John Fisher School for boys in 1929, originally at Duppas Hill.

Peter Amigo remained in control of the diocese until his death on 1 October 1949, aged 85.