George Michael Lenihan OSB (11 September 1858 – 10 February 1910)[1] was fifth Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1896–1910).
Aged 14, he entered the Benedictine College at St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate under the Abbot Alcock whose associate was Father Edmund Luck.
After four years there he went to St Edmund's College, Ware to study for the priesthood for the Westminster Archdiocese.
Lenihan was also entrusted with the charge of the Star of the Sea Orphanage at St Mary's.
Lenihan again visited Europe and North America in 1908 when he attended the celebration of the golden jubilee of Pope Pius X and the Eucharistic Congress in London.