John Joseph Lynch

John Joseph Lynch was born in Clones, Ireland. He was religious at a very young age. He attended Castleknock College and College of St. Lazare, Paris, and then entered the Catholic church as Priest of Congregation of the Mission and preached in Blackrock, County Dublin. He emigrated to North America and landed at New Orleans. He tended to wounded American soldiers of the Mexican War. He was transferred to the College of St. Mary of the Barrens, in Perry County, Missouri. In 1849, he returned to Paris and Rome to continue his religious studies. He then travelled to Buffalo, New York to help establish a seminary. In 1859 he became Coadjutor Bishop and Titular Bishop of Echinus in Toronto.