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Annie Murphy holds up her son's birth certificate following a news conference in New York in 1992, the year she revealed her son had been fathered by Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey. At right is her ...
Eamonn Casey (24 April 1927 – 13 March 2017) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. His resignation in 1992, after it was revealed he had had an affair with an American woman, Annie Murphy, was a significant event in the history of the Irish Catholic Church.
In 1994, a sexually abusive priest was brought to the attention of then Bishop of Ossory Laurence Forristal. Upon receiving legal advice, the bishop did not notify Gardaí of the abuse allegation. Instead, 11 years later in 2005 the information was passed onto authorities. The priest, upon conviction, was immediately removed from ministry. [56]
Robert Miller (1866–1931) was a Church of Ireland bishop [1] in the first half of the 20th century. [2] Miller was educated at Trinity College, Dublin [3] and ordained for Christ Church Derry in 1892. [4] He was Rector of Donegal from 1894 to 1900. [5]
William O'Connell was born on December 8, 1859, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to John and Bridget (née Farrelly) O'Connell, who were Irish immigrants. The youngest of eleven children, he had six brothers and four sisters. His father worked at a textile mill and died when William was four years old. [1]
John Ryan is an Irish journalist and publisher. He is a former editor of Magill and In Dublin.His publications include the magazines VIP and New York Dog (both with former business partner, Michael O'Doherty) and the websites blogorrah.com, and Broadsheet.ie. [1]
The Archbishop of New York is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs.As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing nearly all of the state of New York, [1] [2] the Archbishop of New York also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Albany ...
Isabel de Clare, suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke and Striguil (c. 1172 – 11 March 1220), was an Anglo-Norman and Irish noblewoman descended from Aoife Macmurrough and Richard de Clare and one of the wealthiest heiresses in Wales and Ireland. [1]