Gibraltar born Msgr. Peter Emmanuel Amigo was the ninth of eleven children born to Peter Lawrence and Emily Amigo. His father was a flour merchant. Studying at St. Edmund's College, Ware, and St. Thomas's, Hammersmith, he was ordained priest on February 25, 1888. Professor at St. Edmund's from September 1888 until July 1892.
Assistant priest at Hammersmith from September 1892 to June 1896, he served at Ss. Mary and Michael on Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901. Appointed rector of the mission at Walworth in the Southwark, he was elected bishop of the latter see by Pope Pius X, receiving his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Francis Bourne, assisted by Bishops John Edward Cuthbert Hedley OSB. , and John Baptist Cahill on March 25, 1904.
Founding The John Fisher School in 1929, in 1938, in recognition of his golden jubilee, Pope Pius XI conferred on him the personal title of archbishop. He died in office aged 85.
Assistant priest at Hammersmith from September 1892 to June 1896, he served at Ss. Mary and Michael on Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901. Appointed rector of the mission at Walworth in the Southwark, he was elected bishop of the latter see by Pope Pius X, receiving his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Francis Bourne, assisted by Bishops John Edward Cuthbert Hedley OSB. , and John Baptist Cahill on March 25, 1904.
Founding The John Fisher School in 1929, in 1938, in recognition of his golden jubilee, Pope Pius XI conferred on him the personal title of archbishop. He died in office aged 85.
Gibraltar born Msgr. Peter Emmanuel Amigo was the ninth of eleven children born to Peter Lawrence and Emily Amigo. His father was a flour merchant. Studying at St. Edmund's College, Ware, and St. Thomas's, Hammersmith, he was ordained priest on February 25, 1888. Professor at St. Edmund's from September 1888 until July 1892.
Assistant priest at Hammersmith from September 1892 to June 1896, he served at Ss. Mary and Michael on Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901. Appointed rector of the mission at Walworth in the Southwark, he was elected bishop of the latter see by Pope Pius X, receiving his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Francis Bourne, assisted by Bishops John Edward Cuthbert Hedley OSB. , and John Baptist Cahill on March 25, 1904.
Founding The John Fisher School in 1929, in 1938, in recognition of his golden jubilee, Pope Pius XI conferred on him the personal title of archbishop. He died in office aged 85.
Assistant priest at Hammersmith from September 1892 to June 1896, he served at Ss. Mary and Michael on Commercial Road, East London, first as assistant priest, then as rector from June 1896 to April 1901. Appointed rector of the mission at Walworth in the Southwark, he was elected bishop of the latter see by Pope Pius X, receiving his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Francis Bourne, assisted by Bishops John Edward Cuthbert Hedley OSB. , and John Baptist Cahill on March 25, 1904.
Founding The John Fisher School in 1929, in 1938, in recognition of his golden jubilee, Pope Pius XI conferred on him the personal title of archbishop. He died in office aged 85.
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