Dictionary of Indian Biography/Colgan, Most Rev. Dr. Joseph, D.D.
COLGAN, MOST REV. DR. JOSEPH, D.D. (1824–)
Born in Ireland, April 1, 1824 : educated at Navan and Maynooth College : arrived in India, 1844 : held various appointments in Madras until he became Vicar Apostolic, titular Bishop of Aureliopolis : and Archbishop in 1886 : Personal Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, 1894 : a Fellow of the Madras University : published works on Roman Catholicism.