Monsignor Ciaran O'Carroll is an Irish

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who serves as Episcopal Vicar for Priests of the Archdiocese of Dublin and was formerly Rector of the

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. From

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, Fr. O'Carroll studied for the priesthood in

Clonliffe College Holy Cross College (also known as Clonliffe College), located on Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, was founded in 1854 as the Catholic diocesan seminary for Dublin by Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (later created, in 1866, a cardinal). History ...

and also at

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before further studies in Rome, graduating from the

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, Rome, and the

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, Rome. O'Carroll holds a Doctorate in Church History. He has lectured in Clonliffe College and also at

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. As a priest in the Dublin Diocese, O’Carroll served as parish priest of Saggart, Rathcoole, and Brittas. He worked in

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for the Archbishop of Dublin as the Episcopal Vicar for Evangelisation, and also served as the Administrator of the Catholic University Church on

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, Dublin. O'Carroll was appointed Rector of the Irish College in 2011 and Episcopal Vicar for Priests of the Archdiocese of Dublin in 2020. O'Carroll is a first-cousin of the late broadcaster

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and presided over her funeral mass in January 2020 Marian Finucane’s charity work was “simply outstanding”
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Publications

* Ciaran O'Carroll, ''Paul Cardinal Cullen: Portrait of a Practical Nationalist'', Veritas Books, 2009.

References

21st-century Irish Roman Catholic priests People from Mount Merrion Christian clergy from County Dublin Alumni of University College Dublin Alumni of Clonliffe College Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni {{RC-clergy-stub