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Michael Joseph Curley (October 12 1879 \u2013 May 16 1947), was the 10th Archbishop of Baltimore<\/a> and first Archbishop of Washington<\/a> in the Roman Catholic Church<\/a> in the United States<\/a>. Curley was born in Athlone<\/a>, Co. Westmeath, Ireland<\/a>, one of eleven children of Michael Curley and Mary Ward. He was educated by the Marist Brothers<\/a> and, in 1896,he entered the Apostolic School<\/a> at Mungret College<\/a> in Limerick<\/a>. Curley went on to graduate from the Royal University of Dublin<\/a> before attending the Urban College of the Propaganda Fide<\/a> in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1903 and moved to Florida<\/a> in the U.S. in 1904. Father Curley was named the first resident pastor of DeLand, Florida<\/a>. After only ten years as a parish priest he was consecrated bishop of St. Augustine, Florida<\/a> in 1914. At age 34, he was the youngest Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. After becoming a bishop, Curley wrote home to Athlone saying, \u201cI leave it to you to bring it home to your people that their place is at home with their shoulders to the wheel to give us a greater and better Ireland. This is the message I want to leave you, not that I love America less, but because I love Ireland more.\u201d In 1921, Curley left St. Augustine to become the 10th Archbishop of Baltimore<\/a>, following the death of Archbishop James Cardinal Gibbons<\/a>. His arrival on November 30, 1921 came eight months to the day following the death of Cardinal Gibbons and was described as \u201cone of the greatest welcomes ever tendered a new citizen of Baltimore.\u201d Becoming archbishop of Baltimore was a great honor for Curley and for his family in Ireland. In 1932, he celebrated the High Mass<\/a> in Dublin\u2019s<\/a> Phoenix Park<\/a> at the close of the Eucharistic Congress<\/a>. It was at this time that John McCormack<\/a>, Curley\u2019s fellow parishioner and school friend from Athlone, gave his immortal rendering of Panis Angelicus<\/a>. In July, 1939, Pope Pius XII separated the City of Washington from the Archdiocese of Baltimore and created the joint Archdiocese of Baltimore-Washington. Curley, still serving as archbishop of Baltimore, concurrently became the first Archbishop of Washington, D.C.<\/a>.Remembered primarily as an educationalist, he founded 66 new schools. After his death in 1947, aged 67, he was buried in the Basilica of the Assumption<\/a> in Baltimore<\/a>. After his death, separate Archbishops were appointed for Baltimore and Washington.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Joseph Curley (October 12 1879 \u2013 May 16 1947), was the 10th Archbishop of Baltimore and first Archbishop of Washington in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Curley was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, one of eleven children of Michael Curley and Mary Ward. 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