Monsignor Owen Gallagher

Title:

Monsignor

First Name:

Owen

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Gallagher

Order:

Date of Birth:

1893

Place of Birth:

Kilglass, Co Roscommon

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

1919

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, Ireland

St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland

Date of Death:

23-Jun-1978

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

1978

Place of Burial:

Kilglass, Co Roscommon

Country of Burial:

Ireland

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/292002651

Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Christchurch CathedralAshburton Guardian, 25 November 1944
Christchurch AkaroaAshburton Guardian, 25 November 1944
Christchurch LincolnAshburton Guardian, 25 November 1944
Christchurch FairlieDec1944Ashburton Guardian, 25 November 1944
Christchurch AshburtonParish PriestDec1944Ashburton Guardian, 25 November 1944
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Biographical Notes

Catholic Clergy. Appointments at Ashburton. New Priest At Methven, Ashburton Guardian, 25 November 1944, p 2, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19441125.2.10.

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The Rev. Father Gallagher, Ashburton Guardian, 25 November 1944, p 2, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19441125.2.10.

The Rev. Father O. Gallagher came to New Zealand from Ireland 25 years ago and was first stationed at the Catholic Cathedral in Christchurch. From there he went to Akaroa and then to Lincoln, transferring from there to Fairlie, where he has been stationed for some years.

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Priests Graves, Archivally Speaking: Newsletter of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch Archives, No. 14, October 2017, p 2:

In the heart of Ireland, on a meandering back road, lies the Church of the Sacred Heart, Kilglass Parish, Co Roscommon. It is hard to imagine a connection spanning the hemispheres between Kilglass and New Zealand, yet nestled in the church cemetery lies the grave of Monsignor Owen Gallagher, formerly of Christchurch.

Monsignor Gallagher was born in Kilglass to John Gallagher and Mary Gallagher (nee Donnelly) in 1893. Having attended Summerhill College in Sligo, he went on to study at the seminaries in Maynooth and Kilkenny and was ordained in 1919. With no shortage of priests in the Irish dioceses, Fr Gallagher, like many at the time, was sent abroad to where clergy were needed. He arrived in Christchurch in 1920, returning home in 1949 for a few years, and in his time in the Christchurch Diocese worked in the parishes of Akaroa, Lincoln, Fairlie, Ashburton, Darfield, Lyttelton and Woolston.

The Monsignor retired in 1970, returning to live in his home country where he died in 1978.