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John Tuigg (February 19 1820 Donoughmore Ireland – December 7 1889 Altoona Pennsylvania) was the third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.Tuigg was born in 1820 in Donoughmore Ireland and educated at All Hallows College in Drumcondra. In 1849 when Michael O’Connor—the bishop of Pittsburgh at the time—traveled to Dublin calling for volunteers for missionary work in America young Tuigg was the first to respond.
