Edward Mary Fitzgerald (October 28, 1833—February 21, 1907) was an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[4] His first and only assignment was pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Columbus where he healed a divisive ethnic schism between the Irish and German immigrants.

[2] During the American Civil War, Fitzgerald organized an Irish-American military company called the Montgomery Guards that fought on the Union side.

[6] He received his episcopal consecration on February 3, 1867, from Archbishop Purcell, with Bishops John Lynch and Sylvester Rosecrans serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Church.

[7] While he believed in the theological grounds for infallibility, he feared that its dogmatic definition would hamper the conversion of non-Catholics in Arkansas.

[8] Fitzgerald also suffered from depression, once writing, "I find in me a growing dislike in making exertions of any kind, a bad sign in me, no longer a young man...I am overwhelmed with despondency and gloom.