Patrick Barry (bishop)

Patrick Barry was born on November 15, 1868, in County Clare, Ireland, one of 18 children of Michael and Catherine (née Dixon) Barry.{{cite news|title=The History of Florida: Past & Present|url=http://files.usgwarchives.org/fl/flagler/bios/b6000001.txt|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107101322/http://files.usgwarchives.org/fl/flagler/bios/b6000001.txt|archivedate=January 7, 2011}} After attending national school, he enrolled at Mungret College in Limerick, Ireland, in 1887, taking exams in the Royal University of Ireland from which he graduated. In 1890, he began his studies for the priesthood at St. Patrick's College in Carlow, Ireland.{{cite book|last1=McDonnell|first1=John Hugh|title=The Catholic Hierarchy of the United States, 1790–1922|volume=IV|year=1922|publisher=Catholic University of America|location=Washington, D.C.}} As a seminarian, he was recruited to serve the missions in Florida in the United States.{{cite web |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine |title=The Former Bishops of the Diocese of Saint Augustine |first=Charles R. |last=Gallagher |url=http://www.dosafl.com/index.php?page=about/former_bishops |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105130400/http://www.dosafl.com/index.php?page=about%2Fformer_bishops |archivedate=January 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 1, 2020 }}

Barry was ordained a priest by Bishop Michael Comerford in Ireland for the Diocese of St. Augustine on June 9, 1895.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bbarryp|Bishop Patrick Joseph Barry|January 21, 2015}} After his ordination, Barry immigrated to Florida, where he was appointed as a curate at Immaculate Conception Parish in Jacksonville.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/08/14/archives/rev-patrick-barry-bishop-in-florida-71-head-of-st-augustine-roman.html |date=August 14, 1940 |work=The New York Times |title=REV. PATRICK BARRY, BISHOP IN FLORIDA, 71; Head of St. Augustine Roman Catholic Diocese Dies |agency=Associated Press}} He later worked as a chaplain for the US Armed Forces during the Spanish–American War. After the war, Barry served as pastor of St. Monica's Parish in Palatka, Florida (1903–1913), and then as rector of St. Augustine's Cathedral and as vicar general of the diocese (1917–1921).

On February 22, 1922, Barry was appointed the fifth bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on May 3, 1922, from Archbishop Michael Curley, with Bishops John J. Monaghan and William Turner serving as co-consecrators.

In 1931, Barry instituted an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Leche at the Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine in order to draw attention to the heritage of the Catholic Church in St. Augustine. In June 1932, Barry went with Cardinal Patrick Hayes to attend the World Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland. In 1940, Barry founded Barry University in Miami Shores along with his sister, Mother M. Gerald Barry, and his brother, Father William Barry.{{cite web |publisher=Barry University |title=History |url=https://www.barry.edu/about/history/}}

Patrick Barry died from heart disease at St. Vincent's Hospital in Jacksonville, on August 12, 1940, at age 71.

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