Henry Aloysius Gogarty was an Irish priest in the Holy Ghost Fathers, who served in Eastern Africa, becoming a bishop. Born in

County Cavan County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is base ...

, Ireland, on 9 September in 1884, Gogarty went to

Rockwell College Rockwell College ( ga, Coláiste Charraig an Tobair), founded in 1864, is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school near Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The school has a rugby tradition and has won the Munster Schools Sen ...

taking exams in the

Royal University of Ireland The Royal University of Ireland was founded in accordance with the ''University Education (Ireland) Act 1879'' as an examining and degree-awarding university based on the model of the University of London. A Royal Charter was issued on 27 Apri ...

joining the Holy Ghost order he went to the novitiate at Chevilly near Paris and was ordained at Paris in 1914 and was appointed to

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

. In 1923 Gogarty was appointed vicar apostolic to Kilimanjaro (now the

Diocese of Moshi The Roman Catholic Diocese of Moshi ( la, Dioecesis Moshiensis) is a diocese located in the city of Moshi in the Ecclesiastical province of Arusha in Tanzania. History * September 13, 1910: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Kilima-Njaro fro ...

) and titular bishop Themiscyra, he was ordained a bishop in 1924 in Cobh, Co. Cork. In 1927 he was responsible for the foundation of the Congregation of Our Lady of Kilimanjaro. Gogarty was treated at the Montana Sanatorium of the Congregation for his tuberculosis. Gogarty returned in frail health to Montana, where he died on 8 December 1931. Henry Gogarty secondary school in Arusha, Tanzania is named in his honor.

Publications

*''In the Land of the Kikuyus'' by Rev. Henry Aloysius Gogarty C.S.Sp., M.H. Gill & Son, 1920. *''Kilima-njaro: An East-African Vicariate'', by Rev. Henry Aloysius Gogarty, New York : Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1927.Kilima-njaro : an East-African vicariate
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1884 births 1931 deaths Christian clergy from County Cavan Holy Ghost Fathers 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Alumni of the Royal University of Ireland People educated at Rockwell College 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Tanzania Roman Catholic bishops of Moshi {{Ireland-RC-clergy-stub