Background
John Lynch was born in Company Monaghan in Clones, Company Monaghan, Ireland, son of James and Anne Lynch, and was religious at a very young age.
John Lynch was born in Company Monaghan in Clones, Company Monaghan, Ireland, son of James and Anne Lynch, and was religious at a very young age.
He attended Castleknock College and College of Saint Lazare, Paris.
He left for North America and eventually affiliated with Father Fitzgerald at New Orleans, Louisiana. Father Lynch tended to wounded and sick American soldiers of the Mexican War. He was later transferred to the College of Saint Mary of the Barrens, in Perry County, Missouri.
In 1849 he left for Paris, France and Rome, Italy for more religious studies.
After his second round of studies, Lynch was invited back to America and helped establish a seminary in the Diocese of Buffalo in Upstate New New York He came to Toronto as Company-adjutor Bishop and Titular Bishop of Echinus in 1859.
Archbishop Lynch died in 1888 and was buried in the garden of Saint Michael"s Cathedral (Cemetery of Lucan) in Toronto, Ontario.