Donal Herlihy
Donal J. Herlihy (born November 29, 1908 in Knocknagree , County Cork , † April 2, 1983 ) was from 1964 to 1983 Roman Catholic Bishop of Ferns in southeast Ireland .
Life
Herlihy studied at St. Brendan's Seminary in Killarney , the Pontifical Irish College in Rome and the Pontifical Biblical Institute . He was ordained a priest on April 4, 1931 . From 1939 to 1947 he was professor at All Hallows College in Dublin , then from 1947 to 1951 Vice Rector and from 1951 to 1964 Rector of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. On November 15, 1964, Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri donated him the episcopal ordination . He was involved in the Second Vatican Council . His name is critically mentioned on several occasions in the Ferns Report , an investigation launched by the Irish government to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by clerics in the Diocese of Ferns, County Wexford.
Web links
- Entry on Donal Herlihy on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 16, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ John Cooney: John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland . Syracuse University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8156-0642-7 , pp. 405 .
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| SURNAME | Herlihy, Donal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herlihy, Donal J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish clergyman, Bishop of Ferns (1964-1983) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Knocknagree , County Cork |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1983 |