John Baptist Hogan (24 June 1829 – 29 September 1901), also known as Abbé Hogan, was an

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and educator. He was born near Ennis,

County Clare County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,81 ...

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, and died at Saint-Sulpice,

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. Hogan, a member of the

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order, was the first rector of Saint John's Seminary in Boston, founded in 1884. From 1889 to 1894, he taught at the new Catholic University in Washington, D.C., but returned to Saint John's Seminary for another term as rector after the death of his successor, Charles B. Rex. His nephew Dr. John F Hogan DD served as president of Maynooth College in Ireland.

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* Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/John Baptist Hogan - Wikisource at en.wikisource.org 1829 births 1901 deaths 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic theologians Catholic University of America faculty People from County Clare {{Christian-theologian-stub