Caspar Henry Borgess [SEP] position held
Caspar Henry Borgess
Caspar Henry Borgess (August 1, 1824 – May 3, 1890) was the second Roman Catholic bishop of Detroit, Michigan.
Biography.
He was born in Addrup, Cloppenburg (district), Germany, and emigrated to the United States as a child. He completed his classical and theological studies at St. Xavier's College in Cincinnati and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. He was ordained as a priest on December 8, 1847 at Cincinnati, after which he was stationed for ten years
resigned the see April 16, 1888, and spent his last days in retirement, having received the titular see of Phacusites. He died at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Kalamazoo, Michigan's Borgess Hospital, now Borgess Medical Center, was named for Caspar Henry Borgess by its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph, in 1889.