Henry Aloysius Gogarty

Bishop Henry Aloysius Gogarty C.S.Sp., was an Irish priest in the Holy Ghost Fathers,[1] who served in Eastern Africa, becoming a bishop. Born in County Cavan, Ireland, on the 9th of September in 1884, Henry went to Rockwell College taking exams in the Royal University of Ireland 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.[2] In 1923 Dr Gogarty was appointed Vicar Apostolic to Kilimanjaro 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.[3]

The Rt. Rev. Gogarty was treated at the Montana Sanatorium of the Congregation for his tuberculosis.

Bishop Gogarty returned in frail health to Montana, where he died on December 8, 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.[4]

References
  1. Henry Aloysius Gogarty
  2. About Bishop Henry Gogarty Henry Gogarty Secondary School
  3. History Of Our Founder - Rt. Rev. Henry A. Gogarty Our History, Sisters of the Our Lady of Kilimanjaro.
  4. Kilima-njaro : an East-African vicariate The Online Books Page.


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