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Thomas James Conaty, the son of Patrick Conaty and Alice (Lynch) Conaty, was born in Kilnalec, Ireland, the eldest of eight children.
When he was three years of age his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Taunton, Massachusetts.
Conaty attended the public schools there and entered Montreal College in 1863 where his high-school education was completed. He qualified as a student of Holy Cross College, Worcester, in 1866 and was graduated in 1869. He made his theological studies immediately thereafter in the Sulpician Seminary of Montreal and was ordained to the priesthood for the diocese of Springfield in 1872.
After seven years of service in the ministry Conaty was appointed pastor of the Sacred Heart parish of Worcester where he served until 1897. During this period he displayed an active interest in civic as well as ecclesiastical life. His gifts as an orator attracted wide attention. He became a leader in his community and exerted far-reaching influence in movements that dealt with educational, moral, and social problems. He was particularly active in the work of total abstinence and was president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America from 1888 to 1890. He was an ardent supporter of constitutional efforts for the freedom of Ireland. Conaty served on the Board of Education of Worcester for fourteen years and on its Library Board for six years.
He was one of the founders and president, 1893-1897, of the Catholic Summer School of America established originally at New London, Connecticut, and later permanently located at Cliff Haven, New York. He was active in founding the association of Catholic colleges later known as the National Catholic Education Association, and was its president, 1899-1903. He established in 1892 and edited until 1897, the Catholic Home and School Magazine and he published a volume, New Testament Studies (1898), for secondary schools.
Appointed Rector of the Catholic University of Washington in 1897, Conaty was mafle Domestic Prelate in 1898 and was consecrated Titular Bishop of Samos by Cardinal Gibbons in 1901. At the expiration of his term as Rector of the Catholic University he was appointed to the See of Monterey and Los Angeles. During his twelve years as Bishop there, Los Angeles developed with great rapidity. The traditions of broadmindedness and civic activity which had characterized Conaty’s earlier life were continued with notable effect throughout the entire period of his incumbency of the See of Monterey and Los Angeles.
Diring his tenure as a Bishop of the Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, Thomas James Conaty multiplied parishes, developed Catholic secondary schools, created a Catholic Teachers’ Institute, and multiplied agencies of social service in keeping with the rapid growth of the city. He also took particular interest in the preservation of the Old Missions and other historical Catholic landmarks of California. He personally aided in much of the restoration work to which popular interest led, and cooperated heartily with other agencies in the state that aimed to develop an interest in its history and its monuments of Christian civilization.
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