Patrick Dillon,
C.S.C. (January 1, 1832 – November 15, 1868) was an Irish-American
Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
priest who served as
president of the University of Notre Dame from 1865 to 1866. He was the first Irish priest at the pniversity.
President of the University of Notre Dame
The Rev. Patrick Dillon served as the second president of the University of Notre Dame from 1865 to 1866. He succeeded Fr.
Edward Sorin
Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C. (French: Édouard Sorin; February 6, 1814October 31, 1893) was a French-born Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the founder of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and of St. Edward's Universi ...
when Sorin decided to focus on his job as Provincial of the Congregation. His brief tenure featured the construction of the second main building. Dillon instituted the Commercial Course, which offered students the opportunity to study bookkeeping and
commercial law. He also laid the foundations for the development of a course in the sciences. He was popular with students because of his disciplinary leniency.
He died of illness a few years later in 1868.
Legacy
Dillon Hall
Dillon Hall is one of the 32 Residence Halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of the 17 male dorms. It is located directly west of Alumni Hall, which Dillon acquired in 1988, and is directly adjacent to South Dining Hall o ...
at the University of Notre Dame was dedicated in 1931 in his honor.
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19th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
1832 births
1868 deaths
Christian clergy from County Galway
Presidents of the University of Notre Dame
Congregation of Holy Cross
People from Greenfield, Indiana
Irish emigrants to the United States
Catholics from Indiana
19th-century American Roman Catholic priests