Eduardo O'Gorman


Eduardo O'Gorman Ximénez was an Argentinian Catholic priest and politician. He served as priest in the parish of :es:Basílica de San Nicolás de Bari |San Nicolás de Bari.

Biography

Eduardo was born in Buenos Aires to Joaquina Ximénez Pinto and Adolfo O'Gorman, thereby belonging to a well-known family of Irish and French origin. His maternal grandmother was Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil, born in Saint-Denis. O'Gorman was ordained a priest on August 2, 1846, during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas. After the murder of his sister Camila O'Gorman, he emigrated to Montevideo, returning to the country after the Battle of Caseros. In 1862 Eduardo O'Gorman was appointed parish priest of St. Nicholas of Bari, serving in that position until 1901. He actively participated in the fight against yellow fever that ravaged Buenos Aires during the epidemics of 1870 and 1871.
Among its works of charity are remembered the foundation of the Asylum of Orphans and its participation in the opening of cementerio del Oeste. In the 1870s, Eduardo O'Gorman traveled to Rome where Pope Pius IX granted him a special audience.