Michael Joseph Curley was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington (1939–1947). He served as the tenth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland (1921–1947) and as bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine in Florida (1914–1921).
Michael Joseph Curley
Curley as Bishop of St. Augustine
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States.
Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle
Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Cathedra in St. Matthew's Cathedral, affixed with Archbishop Curley's coat of arms