Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Denis O'Donaghue
History of Greater Indianapolis
Chapter XLV 'The Churches
This sketch of the Catholic Church in Indianapolis was kindly prepared for this volume by the Rt. Rev. Denis O'Donaghue, whose official service here for more than a third of a century makes him pre-eminently an authority.
He is a native of Indiana, born November 30, 1848 in Daviess County, near the present town of Connelton. After the ordinary education of the common schools, he passed three years at St. Meinrad's College in Spencer County, entering at the age of 16; then four years at St. Thomas' Seminary at Bardstown, Ky. ; then three years at the Grande Seminaire at Montreal. He was ordained at Indianapolis September 6, 1874 and was stationed at St. John's where he remained for eleven years, filling various offices. He was then made rector of St. Patrick's where he continued in service until made Bishop of Louisville in 1910.
Contributed by: Dianne Rossman