Born in 1866 in Hacketstown, County Carlow, he attended Blackrock College in Dublin for his secondary schooling.
[2] He moved to France for further studies and to train for the Holy Ghost Fathers, and was ordained in 1889.
In 1903 he was appointed Vicar General to Sierra Leone, and Titular Bishop.
[3] He died in 1935, and is buried in Switzerland where he had retired, due to ill health.
[1] Bishop O'Gorman was succeeded by fellow Irish Holy Ghost Father the Corkman, Bartholomew Stanley Wilson as Bishop.