Right Reverend William Lanigan (May 1820 – 13 June 1900), was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales.
[1] Lanigan was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of Thomas Lanigan and his wife Brigid Anastasia, née Dauton.
[1] He was educated at Thurles and Maynooth Colleges.
He was ordained priest at Maynooth on 8 April 1848,[1] and emigrated to Sydney in 1859.
After seven years' missionary work in Goulburn and Berrima, he was consecrated Bishop of Goulburn on 9 June 1867.