. Leslie's history of the greater New York . oman Catholic Diocese ofXew York, was consecrated atEome on November 0 of that year,and anivid in Xew York City onDecember 21. remaining Bishop ofXew York until his death in thiscity, Febimaiw 6, 1825. Having atfirst but four jiriests under him ina diocese including the State ofXew York and a part of Xew Jer-sey, he did missionaiw work him-self, founding, among others, theCatholic churches at Utica andBochester, X^. Y. Tie introducedthe Sisters of Charity into Xew Y^ork City, and placed under themthe orphan asylum which he hadfounded in 1817, and in
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . oman Catholic Diocese ofXew York, was consecrated atEome on November 0 of that year,and anivid in Xew York City onDecember 21. remaining Bishop ofXew York until his death in thiscity, Febimaiw 6, 1825. Having atfirst but four jiriests under him ina diocese including the State ofXew York and a part of Xew Jer-sey, he did missionaiw work him-self, founding, among others, theCatholic churches at Utica andBochester, X^. Y. Tie introducedthe Sisters of Charity into Xew Y^ork City, and placed under themthe orphan asylum which he hadfounded in 1817, and incorporatedas 1 he Xew York Benevolent Society. He was active during the yel-lo\\- fever plague of 1822 and 1823. He v\as born iu Drogheda, Ire-land, in 1750, and educated in Belgium. POWER. JOITX. Roman Catholic priest, was Yicar-General underBishoi:) John Connolly, and during nearly two v^ears, from the deathof the latter, February C, 1825. until the appointment of his Du Bois. was Administrator of the Diocese of Xew JOIIX CONNOLLY. PRESTON. THOMAS S., Assistant Minister of St. Lukes EpiscopalChurch, Xew York City, prior to 1849, in tliat year entered the Roman OF XEW YORK BIOGRAPHY. 515 Catholic oomiiiUHidii. lie sulisccjueiitly becaiiic Pastor of t<t. AnnsCaTliolif Clinicli, New York Citv; was Chancellor and Mear-Generalunder both Cardinal MeCloskey and Archbishop Corrij^an, and wasmade Mousiauor. DU BOIS, JOHN, succeeded Jcdin Connolly as Konian CatholicBishop of Xew York in 1826. He had been the founder (d Mount t^ Collej;e, Enmu^sburg, and had assisted Madame iSetuu infounding the Bisters of Charity. He dedicated a number of churchesand established a diocesan seminary at Xyack, X. Y., which was sub-sequently destroyed by fire. He died December 15, 1842. IirCtHES, JOHX, the first Archbishop of Xew York, was born inAnnaloghau, (bounty Tyrone, Ireland, June 24, 1797, the son of Pat-rick Hughes and JIargaret McKenna. Abou
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