0'FARRELL, Michael Joseph, R. C. bishop born in Limerick, Ireland, 2 December, 1832. He began his studies in All-Hallows college for foreign missions, Drumcondra, in 1848, afterward entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, and on finishing" his course returned to Ireland, where he was ordained priest on 18 August, 1855. Becoming a member of the Sulpitian order, he entered the novitiate in Paris, and was subsequently professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the order in that city. He afterward emigrated to Canada. and was appointed professor in its seminary at Montreal. He then came to the United States, and was affiliated to the archdiocese of New York and placed in charge of St. Patrick's church. He was transferred to St. Peter's in 1869, and became pastor at Rondout in 1872. He then returned as pastor to St. Peter's, where he gave special attention to education, and founded a school that became one of the finest in the city. When the diocese of Trenton was formed out of that of Newark in 1881, he was nominated to the new set, and consecrated bishop in the cathedral of New York by Cardinal McCloskey. He made Trenton his residence, and at once began the erection of new churches and educational and charitable institutions. Bishop O'Farrell is popular as a lecturer among his co-religionists. The number of churches in his diocese is eighty-four, and it includes four convents, one seminary, seven academies, an orphan asylum, and twenty-four parochial schools.

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