Eugene O'Callaghan
Clogher | |
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In office | 4 April 1943 – 28 November 1969 |
Predecessor | Patrick McKenna |
Successor | Patrick Mulligan |
Personal details | |
Born | 7 January 1888 Camlough, County Armagh, Ireland, |
Died | 21 May 1973 | (aged 85)
Eugene O'Callaghan (7 January 1888 – 21 May 1973) was a Roman Catholic bishop.
Early life and education
O'Callaghan was born in
Bishop of Clogher
He was appointed the
In 1957 he denounced the IRA border campaign arguing that physical force would only aggravate the division not bring a solution.[3]
As was common with many Catholic bishops in Ireland at the time, one of his main pastoral priorities was education and specifically the provision of new schools to meet rising social demands. As bishop of a cross-border diocese, O'Callaghan had to operate within two jurisdictions but one academic and reviewer considers this Bishop O'Callaghan‘s "biggest achievement".[4] O'Callaghan was responsible for the creation of St Michael's College, Enniskillen as a diocesan college, taking over the school from the Presentation Brothers and establishing it on a new site just outside the Fermanagh town.
He attended the opening session of the Second Vatican Council in October 1962.
He resigned this appointment on 26 January 1971 in accordance with newly adopted protocols for the style of retired bishops in the post-Vatican II era and died as Bishop Emeritus of Clogher on 21 May 1973. O'Callaghan was succeeded by Patrick Mulligan. He is buried in the grounds of his Cathedral alongside his predecessor.[5]
See also
References
- ISBN 1870963008.
- ^ Bishop Eugene O'Callaghan profile at Catholic Hierarchy website. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-19-920693-3.
- S2CID 163632769.
- ^ "St. Macartan's Cathedral". Retrieved 2 July 2018.