Background
Raymond Gallagher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Hugh and Ella (née Reedy) Gallagher.
bishop officer Catholic priest
Raymond Gallagher was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Hugh and Ella (née Reedy) Gallagher.
He was educated at Saint Thomas Aquinas Parish School (1918-1926) and Cathedral Latin High School (1926-1930). He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from John Carroll University in 1934, and attended Saint Mary"s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1934 to 1939.
He was ordained to the priesthood on March 25, 1939. Gallagher was a curate at Saint Colman Church in Cleveland (1939-1944) and a chaplain to the United States Navy during World World War II (1944-1946). In 1948, he earned a Master of Social Work degree from Loyola University Chicago and became assistant director of diocesan Catholic Charities.
Pope Pius XII named him a papal chamberlain in 1955.
He was general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Charities from 1961 to 1965. On June 21, 1965, Gallagher was appointed the third Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana by Pope Paul VI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 11 from Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, with Bishops Leo Christopher Byrne and Clarence George Issenmann serving as co-consecrators.
After seventeen years as bishop, he resigned on October 26, 1982. He died at age 78.
Founder Catholic Big Brothers, Cleveland, 1951, Catholic Child Guidance Clinic, Cleveland, 1953, Don Bosco School for Boys, Cleveland, 1957. Vice chairman White House Conference Children and Youth, 1960. Member executive planning committee White House Conference on Aging, 1961.
Vice chairman, member of national Executive Committee CitizensCrusade Against Poverty. Board directors National Council Aging, United Community Funds and Couns. American, National Social Welfare Assembly, National Housing Conference.
Trustee National Council Crime and Delinquency. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member National Catholic Education Association {president-general 1968, Chairman of the Board 1969-1983}, Alpha Sigma Nu.
Son of Hugh and Ella {Reedy} G.