Thomas Joseph Dowling (28 February 1840 – 6 August 1924) was a Canadian Catholic priest and the second Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Peterborough and the fourth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario.

Biography

He was born in

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, and educated at

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. He was parish-priest at

Paris, Ontario Paris (2021 population, 14,956) is a community located in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. It lies just northwest from the city of Brantford at the spot where the Nith River empties into the Grand River (Ontario), Grand River. Paris was vot ...

, for 22 years, administrator of the diocese of Hamilton in 1883, he was named bishop of Peterborough in 1887 and on May 1, received his

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at St. Mary's Cathedral,

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, from Archbishop John Joseph Lynch, C.M., with Bishops James Joseph Carbery and Thomas Timothy O'Mahony serving as

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. He was transferred to the bishopric of Hamilton in 1889.

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External links

Catholic-Hierarchy entry
1840 births 1924 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Peterborough Irish emigrants to Canada 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada Roman Catholic bishops of Hamilton, Ontario {{Canada-RC-bishop-stub