He studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, received his Doctorate in Canon Law at the age of twenty-two years. He was ordained in Rome on February 18th., 1900, and upon returning to Prince Edward Island taught at College for two years. In 1903 he was appointed Secretary to the then Apostolic Delegate to Canada , Archbishop Sbaretti, and remained as Secretary to Archbishop Sbaretti's successor, Archbishop Stagni , the post he held at the time of his appointment as first Archbishop of Winnipeg. Archbishop Sinnott was appointed first Archbishop of Winnipeg on December 9th., 1915, was consecrated in the chapel of the Apostolic Delegation in Ottawa on September 21st., 1916, the consecrating bishop Archbishop Stagni . Archbishop Sinnott was installed as Archbishop of Winnipeg, in St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, December 24th., 1916 by Archbishop Stagni who also conferred the pallium upon him. Archbishop Sinnott was named "Assistant at the Pontifical Throne" on January 2nd., 1938, by His Holiness, Pope Pius XL Forced by ill health to withdraw from the administration of the Diocese, the Most Rev. Gerald Murray , C.Ss . R. D.D . then Bishop of Sas¬ katoon, was named Coadjutor- Archbishop of Winnipeg in 1946, and in late December, 1951, Archbishop Sinnott resigned as Archbishop of Winni¬ peg, and appointed Titular Archbishop of Sebastia on January 14th., 1952. His Grace died in Winnipeg at the Misericordia General Hospital on Easter Sunday, April 18th., 1954, and was buried in the central part of the Priests' Plot in St. Marty's Cemetery, Winnipeg. When Archbishop Sinnott arrived in Winnipeg at the end of 1916, he was given the task of organizing a new diocese comprising 44,776 square miles of territory. There were not too many priests in the Diocese as some of them had elected to remain in the Archdiocese of St. Boniface which is the mother Diocese, and His Grace was obliged to seek out priests from other parts of Canada and from the States, particularly from the East. Many of these did not remain, so from 1917 until approxim¬ ately 1935, the recruitment of priests from outside the Diocese was liter¬ ally an on-going task. The Archdiocese of Winnipeg, then and now, was approximately half urban and half rural, and of the rural areas of the Diocese a large part was truly missionary territory (as it is to-day) particularly so among the Indians on reserves and the Metis living near small towns. It is to Archbishop Sinnott's everlasting credit that he built up a very strong Diocese, organized and re-organized parishes and missions, and literally knew most of the Catholics in the Archdiocese of Winnipeg by their first names. He constantly travelled about the Archdiocese visiting parishes and missions, visiting people in their homes to the extent that he became a legend in his own time. —31—