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Right Reverend William Lanigan (May 1820 – 13 June 1900), was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales.

Lanigan was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of Thomas Lanigan and his wife Brigid Anastasia, née Dauton. He was educated at Thurles and Maynooth Colleges. He was ordained priest at Maynooth on 8 April 1848, and emigrated to Sydney in 1859. After seven years' missionary work in Goulburn and Berrima, he was consecrated Bishop of Goulburn on 9 June 1867.

References

1. ^ Duffy, C. J. "Lanigan, William (1820–1900)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
2. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Lanigan, Right Rev. William" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

• 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
• 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Australia
• Alumni of St. Patrick's College, Thurles
• Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
• 1820 births
• 1900 deaths
• Roman Catholic bishops of Goulburn