HAYES, PATRICK JOSEPH (1867-1938), American car dinal, was born in New York city, Nov. 20, 1867. He graduated from Manhattan college in 1888, continued his studies at St. Joseph's seminary in Troy (N.Y.), and was there ordained priest in 1892. After a graduate course at the Catholic University of Washington, he became curate of St. Gabriel's parish in New York city. In 1903 Archbishop Farley of New York, who had been his parish priest, appointed him his secretary and chancellor. In the same year Cathedral college was opened, and he became its first president, an office which he held for I I years.
In 1914 he was consecrated titular bishop of Tagaste and bishop auxiliary of New York. In the following year he was made rector of St. Stephen's church, and on Nov. 24, 1917, was appointed Catholic chaplain bishop for the U.S. army and navy, in which capacity he travelled extensively, appointing chaplains to the various camps. He was made archbishop of New York in 1919. Early in 1924 he was summoned to Rome by Pope Pius XI. and was made a cardinal at a consistory held on March 25, having been assigned the church of Santa Maria in Via as his titular church. See J. J. Walsh, Our American Cardinals (1926).