Eamon Casey

Eamon Casey (born April 24, 1927 in Firies , County Kerry , † March 13, 2017 in Newmarket-on-Fergus ) was an Irish clergyman and missionary . He was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh .

Life

Casey studied Catholic theology and philosophy and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Kerry on June 17, 1951 .

On July 17, 1969, Casey was appointed by Pope Paul VI. appointed Bishop of Kerry. He received his episcopal consecration on November 9, 1969, the Apostolic Nuncio in Ireland, Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Limerick , Henry Murphy , and the Bishop of Ferns , Donald J. Herlihy .

On July 21, 1976 Casey was by Paul VI. Appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Galway and Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora . Casey succeeded Bishop Michael Browne as bishop .

In 1980 he was an eyewitness to the massacre at the funeral of Archbishop Oscar Romero , who was shot on the orders of the local military , which sparked the civil war in El Salvador . He then became involved against US military aid to the United Nations, the White House and international governments. During a visit by US President Ronald Reagan to Ireland in 1984, he snubbed him because he refused to see Reagan.

In 1992 the Irish media announced that Casey was in a relationship with Annie Murphy. They had their son Peter, who was born in Dublin in 1974. Annie Murphy refused to adopt her child and raised Casey's son with the help of her parents. When Annie Murphy published this in the Irish media in 1992, Casey resigned his office as bishop in Galway and went to South America as a missionary . He was succeeded as bishop by James McLoughlin . In Ecuador , he worked for the Missionary Society of St. James in a rural church. When his five-year contract expired, he served in a parish in Sussex, England.

literature

• Annie Murphy, Peter de Rosa : Forbidden Fruit: the true story of my secret love for the Bishop of Galway . Little, Brown and Company, London, 1993, ISBN 978-0-316-90573-2
  • German: Annie and the Bishop: The true story of my secret love for the Bishop of Galway . From the American by Regina Kammerer. Goldmann, Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-442-30593-4 )

Web links

• Entry for Eamon Casey on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eamon Casey: The bishop still seeking sanctuary from his past. Times Online December 4, 2005, archived from the original on June 4, 2011 ; accessed on March 14, 2017 (English). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael John Browne	Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh 1976–1992	James McLoughlin
Denis Moynihan	Bishop of Kerry 1969–1976	Kevin McNamara