Thomas Bonacum [SEP] date of death
Thomas Bonacum
Thomas Bonacum (29 January 1847 – 4 February 1911) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln. He was the rector of the Church of the Holy Name in St. Louis, Missouri.
Biography.
Bonacum was born near Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland and emigrated to the United States when he was a child, settling at St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which
Cheyenne. He was consecrated a bishop on February 24, 1897 by Archbishop John Hennessy of Dubuque. The co-consecrators were Bishops Henry Cosgrove of Davenport and Thomas Bonacum of Lincoln. The Cheyenne diocese had been without a bishop for almost four years when his predecessor, Bishop Maurice Francis Burke, left to become bishop of Saint Joseph, Missouri. Bishop Lenihan, however, was a man of poor health that was made worse by Wyoming's high altitude and dryness. He was restricted in what he could accomplish and returned to