Joseph Patrick Dougherty

Joseph Patrick Dougherty (January 11, 1905 – July 9, 1970) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[1] Dougherty was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Seattle on June 14, 1930.

[2] In 1930, he was appointed as a professor at St. Edward Seminary in Kenmore, Washington.

[1] On July 9, 1951, Dougherty was appointed the first bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Yakima by Pope Pius XII.

[2] He received his episcopal consecration on September 26, 1951, from Archbishop Thomas Arthur Connolly, with Bishops Charles Daniel White and Hugh Aloysius Donohoe serving as co-consecrators.