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In 2014 St Patrick's Missionary Society held a General Chapter meeting which elected a new leadership team. In 2015 the society commenced moving its headquarters from Kiltegan in Ireland to Nairobi in Kenya. [4] The Society produces the Africa - St. Patrick's Mission magazine. [10] The Society has installed a wind turbine in Kiltegan. [11]
Derek Byrne S.P.S. (born 17 January 1948) is an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church and a member of the St. Patrick's Missionary Society (Kiltegan Fathers) who was bishop of Primavera do Leste–Paranatinga in Brazil from 2014 to 2023. He was bishop of Guiratinga, Brazil from 2008 to 2014.
Monsignor Patrick Joseph Whitney (1894–1942), was an Irish priest who in 1932 founded the Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions [1] known as the Kiltegan Fathers. Whitney was born in Ballyfermoyle, between Keadue and Lough Key in County Roscommon, on the borders with County Sligo and County Leitrim.
St. Patrick's Missionary Society / Kiltegan Fathers [ edit ] In May 2011, allegations of sexual abuse by a member of the St. Patrick's Missionary Society in Africa were revealed on the RTÉ programme Prime Time Investigates .
The Roman Catholic St Patrick's Missionary Society, known as the Kiltegan Fathers, has its mother house at High Park 2 km from the village. Kiltegan won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1973. [5] The village is also home to Kiltegan GAA club, which also includes players from the nearby sister village of Rathdangan. Kiltegan GAA club fields ...
The Father Mathew Society was started in 1890 by a number of young Catholic men employed by the Lackawanna Railroad Company. Their first meeting was in the old Saint Peter and Paul’s school ...
He was a founding member of the Saint Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions, (Kiltegan Fathers), which he entered in 1932, [1] in response to appeals for priests for the missions. Fr. Fr. McGettrick volunteered for mission and was sent to Nigeria as, replacing Fr. Patrick Whitney (the societies founder) as Prefect Apostolic of Ogoja in 1939.
A father who raped a teenage girl with his son has been jailed for nine years . Hugh Mullen, 41, and Cameron Mullen, 21, committed multiple rapes against the 16-year-old victim, while she was ...