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St. John's College, Waterford
St John's College (or St John's Seminary) was a Roman Catholic seminary founded in 1807 for the diocese of Waterford and Lismore. Foundation The College was founded by Bishop John Power DD. It was one of many seminaries founded in Ireland following the reliefs of the penal laws by the Catholic Relief Bill. The college was formed out of two schools one a classical school of Rev. Thomas Flynn DD, the other an Academy of Dr. Geoffrey Keating and the new college was located in Manor Hill in Waterford, originally a mansion of the Wyse family. In 1868 a new building for the college was built at John's Hill, the building was designed by the architect Mr. George Goldie from the London firm of Goldie and Child, the foundation stone was laid by the Rev. Dr. O'Brien Bishop of Waterford and a former president of St. John's.''Waterford & Lismore – A Compendious History of the United Dioceses'' by Patrick Power, M.R.I.A., D.Litt., Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, UCC, Cork University Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city" , mapsize = 220px , pushpin_map = Ireland#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Ireland##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = 1 , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Provinces of Ireland, Province , subdivision_name1 = Munster , subdivision_type2 = Regions of Ireland, Region , subdivision_name2 = Southern Region, Ireland, Southern , subdivision_type3 = Counties of Ireland, County , subdivision_name3 = County Waterford, Waterford , established_title = Founded , established_date = 914 , leader_title = Local government in the Republic of Ireland, Local authority , leader_name = Waterford City and County Council , leader_title2 = Mayor of Waterford , leader_name2 = Damien Geoghegan , leader_title3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Joseph McGrath
Patrick Joseph McGrath (pronounced ; born June 11, 1945) is an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of San Jose in California from 1999 to 2019 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1988 to 1998. Biography Early life Patrick McGrath was born in Dublin, Ireland, on June 11, 1945. He is the youngest of three sons of Patrick Joseph McGrath, Sr., and Eileen Gaule McGrath. For secondary school, Patrick McGrath attended Chanel College in Dublin. In 1964, at age 19, McGrath entered St. John's Seminary in Waterford, Ireland. His father died while he was in seminary. Reprinted in Priesthood In 1970, McGrath was ordained to the priesthood in Waterford by Michael Russell (bishop of Waterford and Lismore) for service in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. McGrath moved to San Francisco, where he was assigned as parochial vicar of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish and as a member of the archdiocesan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Downey
Edmund Downey (''nom de plume'' F. M. Allen) (24 July 1856, in Waterford – 11 February 1937, in Waterford) was an Irish novelist, newspaper editor, and publisher. After education at Catholic University High School, Waterford and St. John's College, Waterford, Edmund Downey went to London and worked there as a journalist from 1878 to 1906. He was active in the Southwark Irish Literary Club. With William Tinsley, Edmund Downey was the co-editor of ''Tinsley's Magazine'' from autumn 1879 to September 1884. In 1884 Osbert Ward (1857–1949) and Edmund Downey were the co-founders of Ward & Downey, which published 277 titles from 1884 to 1897. Ward & Downey published many books of outstanding literary value by Irish authors, including John Augustus O'Shea, Richard Dowling (Downey's cousin), Richard Ashe King, Standish O'Grady, Hester Sigerson ("A Ruined Race"), and Joseph Fogerty, as well as the English-born Tighe Hopkins, whose parents were born in Ireland. Downey left the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Buckley (priest)
Pat Buckley (born 2 May 1952) is an Irish independent Catholic bishop and former Catholic priest who has been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. As a Roman Catholic priest, he ministered to Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners during the 1981 Irish hunger strike, including their leader, Bobby Sands. His ordination to the episcopate by Bishop Michael Cox resulted in him being excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. He subsequently officiated at the marriages of divorcees who wished to remarry. He received a suspended sentence for officiating at sham marriages. Buckley also served as a local councillor on Larne Borough Council. Early life Buckley was born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland. He was the eldest of 17 children, six of whom died in infancy. His father was a trade union official who later became a barrister and his socialist views influenced his son Pat. Buckley says that he decided that he wanted to become a priest at the age of three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Barron
Edward Barron (1801–1854) was an Irish-born missionary bishop who led a Catholic mission to Liberia. Life Edward Barron was born on 18 June 1801, one of ten children of Pierce and Anna Winston Barron of Ballyneale, Clonea, Rathgormack, County Waterford. At the age of thirteen, Edward and his younger brother William were sent to St Edmund's College, Ware in Hertfordshire, England. In 1817, his eldest brother Pierce and four of his five sisters drowned when the packet ''William and Mary'' sank en route from Bristol to Waterford. From England Barron next attended the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, before returning to Dublin to enter Trinity College to study Law. He left without completing exams and entered St. John's College, Waterford to study for the priesthood. In 1823 Patrick Kelly (bishop of Waterford and Lismore) sent him to the Propaganda College in Rome to complete his studies, where he obtained a Doctorate in Theology. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walsh (bishop)
John Walsh (24 May 1830 – 30 July 1898) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, Canada from 1889 to 1898. Early years Born in Mooncoin, County Kilkenny, Ireland, Walsh was educated at St. John's College, Waterford before he to Canada in 1852 to complete his studies at the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Montreal, Lower Canada. He was ordained a priest of Toronto, Upper Canada in 1854 by then Bishop of Toronto Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel, at St. Michael's Cathedral. On his way to Toronto, in the summer of 1854, Walsh came down cholera, which permanently undermined his health. Father Walsh served as pastor at Brock. In April 1857 he was made parish priest of St Mary’s in Toronto, a parish established by Irish immigrants in 1852. A year later, he went to St. Paul's. In 1860, Walsh was made rector of the Cathedral, but chose to resign the position in 1861 and resume his former place at St. Mary's, while from April 1862 he also served as Vicar General of the Archd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hearne (lawyer)
John Joseph Hearne (; 189329 March 1969) was an Irish legal scholar and diplomat who was referred to as "Ireland's Thomas Jefferson" for his role in the drafting of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. Biography John Hearne was the youngest son of Alderman Richard Hearne, a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, who twice served as Mayor of Waterford, and Alice Mary Hearne (née Power). His older brother Canon Maurice Hearne served as parish priest A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ... in Cahir. Hearne attended Waterpark College (Christian Brothers). He went to train for the priesthood at St. John's College, Waterford transferring in 1911 to Maynooth College after a year. Here he completed a BA degree in Arts and Philosophy from National University of Ireland, enrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henderson (bishop)
Charles Joseph Henderson, KC*HS was born in County Waterford, Ireland on 14 April 1924, where he was ordained as a priest on 6 June 1948. He was educated locally by the Christian Brothers and trained for the priesthood in St. John's College, Waterford. Based in England, Henderson was appointed vicar general of the new diocese Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, which was created out of Southwark in 1965. He was made a papal chamberlain in 1960 and a prelate to the papal household in 1965. In 1969 he was appointed as the parish priest for Our Lady Help of Christians, Blackheath. On 8 December 1972 at St George's Cathedral (Southwark), Archbishop Cyril Cowderoy ordained him as an auxiliary bishop in Southwark and titular Bishop of Tricala. After the death of Archbishop Cowderoy in October 1976, he was put in charge of the diocese until the installation of Archbishop Michael Bowen in April 1977. In 1980 he was given responsibility for south-east London. Ecumenism In 1976, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Séamus Cunningham
Séamus Cunningham (born 7 July 1942) is an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in England. He was the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle in the north of England from 2009 to 2019. Biography Séamus Cunningham was born in Castlebar, County Mayo. He attended St. Nathy's College in Ballaghaderreen and St. John's College in Waterford. He was ordained to the priesthood for the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle on 12 June 1966 and then undertook pastoral work in north west County Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne until 1972. Cunningham was a diocesan adviser for Religious Education and Catechetics from 1972 to 1978, when he became director of Religious Education. From 1984 to 1987, he served as spiritual director at Ushaw College. In 1987 he was appointed administrator of St. Mary's Cathedral Church and a canon. Following a sabbatical in the United States Cunningham became a pastor in Tynemouth and Cullercoats in 1988. He was named vicar general of Hexham and Newcastle in 2004 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lee (bishop Of Clifton)
William Lee (27 September 1875 – 21 September 1948) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Clifton from 1931 to 1948. Born in Mitchelstown, County Cork on 27 September 1875, he was educated at St. Colman's College, Fermoy and at the seminaries of St. John's College, Waterford and St Mary's College, Oscott. He was ordained to the priesthood on 2 March 1901. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Clifton by the Holy See on 18 December 1931. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 26 January 1932, the principal consecrator was Archbishop Thomas Leighton Williams of Birmingham, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Francis John Vaughan of Menevia and Bishop John Patrick Barrett John Patrick Barrett (31 October 1878 – 2 November 1946) was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born on 31 October 1878 in Liverpool, England. He was educated at St Edward's College, Evert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sheehan(Archbishop)
Michael Sheehan (17 Dec 1870 – 1 March 1945) ( Irish: Micheál Ó Síothcháin) was an Irish priest, educator and a Coadjutor Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney in Australia (1922-1937). He was also a notable scholar of the Irish language. Biography Born on 17 December 1870 in the Newtown area of Waterford city, County Waterford, Ireland, being the sixth of the children born until then to Cornelius and Ann Sheehan. Cornelius Sheehan was born in Newmarket, County Cork, and owned an export business. Ann Sheehan (née Lawler) was raised an Anglican, the daughter of a Church of Ireland minister.About the Author Archbishop Michael Sheehan Baronius Press. Michael received private tuition early in life, and was then taught by the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Regan
Edwin Regan (born 31 December 1935) is a Welsh prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second Bishop of Wrexham from 1994 to 2012. Biography Edwin Regan was born in Port Talbot, and studied at St. John's Seminary, Waterford, Ireland, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 5 July 1959. He then served as assistant pastor aSt. Alban's Churchin Pontypool (1959) and aSt. Joseph's Churchin Neath (1959–1966). From 1966 to 1967, he attended Corpus Christi College in London, obtaining a diploma in catechetics. Regan served as chaplain to Porthcawl Convent from 1967 to 1971, whence he became director of catechetics and cathedral administrator for the Archdiocese of Cardiff. He was raised to the rank of Honorary Canon in 1978, and Chapter Canon in 1985. He was later pastor of St Helen's Church in Barry (1984–1989) and of St. Mary's Church in Bridgend (1989–1994). On 7 November 1994, Regan was appointed Bishop of Wrexham by Pope John Paul II. He receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
