William Murphy (bishop of Kerry)

Styles of
**William Murphy**
Styles of; William Murphy
	My Lord
Religious style	Bishop
Posthumous style	none

William Murphy
William Murphy
Roman Catholic

William Murphy (born 6 June 1936), ordained as a priest in 1961,

Roman Catholic bishop of Kerry

.

Life

Murphy was born in

St Patrick's College, Maynooth

, and was ordained a priest in 1961.

For six years, Murphy taught at

catechetics at Lumen Vitae, Brussels, and Fordham University, New York, where he earned an MA in religious education in 1969. He was Kerry diocesan advisor for religious education in primary schools in 1970, and then spent three years at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, earning a doctorate in divinity (DD) in 1973.^{[citation needed}

]

For the next five years he worked with the Primary Catechetical Commission preparing the Children of God series, the primary catechetical program.^[citation needed]

Murphy taught theology in the Institute for Religious Education, Mount Oliver, Dundalk, for a year before returning to Kerry in 1979 as diocesan director of religious education in post-primary schools and co-ordinator of adult religious education in the diocese.^{[citation needed]}

He was the first director of the John Paul II Pastoral Centre, Killarney, becoming Curate of Killarney Parish in 1987 and administrator in 1988. Upon the death of Bishop Diarmaid O’Súilleabháin in August 1994 he was appointed administrator of the diocese of Kerry, and was elevated to bishop in 1995.^[2]

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[2] Diocese of Kerry

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