Prominent archivist of African-American Catholic history dies

Published: 2004-05-11

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- A funeral Mass was celebrated May 8 at St. Joseph Manor in Baltimore for Josephite Father Peter Hogan, who spent more than half a century establishing and maintaining one of the foremost archives on Catholic African-American history in the world. Father Hogan, who died May 5 at the age of 83, was remembered as a meticulous and dedicated archivist who was passionate about chronicling and preserving the African-American experience of the Catholic faith. The priest began working on archival research on a part-time basis in 1947. From 1964 until his death, he worked as the full-time archivist at his religious order's Baltimore headquarters -- cataloging, indexing and microfilming hundreds of thousands of letters, official correspondence, newspaper clippings, oral histories, interviews, historic photographs and other items related to Catholic African-American history and the Josephites.

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