Laurence Higgins
He was ordained a Catholic priest on June 21, 1953, at All Hallows Seminary in Dublin, Ireland.He was transferred to the Florida Diocese of St. Augustine where he worked in Miami, and then in Tampa where he founded St. Lawrence Catholic Church in 1958.As a priest he served as the Vicar General of the Diocese of St. Petersburg under the late Bishop Thomas Larkin.[2][6] Higgins was often sought by the Bay area media outlets to comment on controversial and church-related issues.[8][9] The funeral was held at St. Laurence Catholic Church in Tampa on August 31, 2016, with his burial following at the Garden of Memories Cemetery.
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