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William Hogan
d. 1848
A controversial 19th-century Irish-born priest turned polemical writer, he became known in the United States for fierce public battles with the Catholic Church and for books attacking Roman Catholic doctrine and practice.
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About the author
Born in Ireland and educated at Maynooth College, William Hogan was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest before emigrating to the United States in 1819. He first worked in New York and then in Philadelphia, where disputes over parish authority and his own conduct made him a highly divisive public figure.
After breaking with the Church, Hogan became known for anti-Catholic lectures and books. Works associated with him include A Synopsis of Popery: As It Was and As It Is and Nunneries and Auricular Confession, which helped make him part of the loud religious controversies of the 1840s.
He died in 1848. Reliable pages found during this search did not provide a clear usable portrait image, so no profile image is included here.