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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.
It had been two years since Murphy had quietly sued Casey in New York. The bishop, through an intermediary in the states, paid nearly $100,000 to Murphy using diocesan funds as part of the suit ...
James Augustine McFaul (June 6, 1850 – June 16, 1917) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Trenton in New Jersey from 1894 until his death in 1917.
An only child, McCarrick was born into an Irish American family in New York City to Theodore E. and Margaret T. (née McLaughlin) McCarrick. [16] His father was a ship captain who died from tuberculosis when McCarrick was three years old, [17] and his mother then worked at an automobile parts factory in The Bronx. [18]
John Joseph Hughes (June 24, 1797 – January 3, 1864) was an Irish-born Catholic prelate who served as Bishop (and later Archbishop) of New York from 1842 until his death. [1] In 1841, he founded St. John's College, which would later become Fordham University .
A native of the New York borough of Queens, Kevin Sweeney was born on January 10, 1970, to James and Agnes (Blewitt) Sweeney. He has a sister, Marie Shanahan, and a brother, Brendan. [ 2 ] Kevin Sweeney grew up in St. Luke's Parish in Whitestone, Queens , and attended Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary in Queens from 1984 to 1988.
Patrick Ford, (1837–1913) founded the Irish World in New York.; Austin E. Ford (1857–1896) was editor of the New York Freeman; John Devoy (1842–1928) was editor of the Gaelic American 1903–1928. James McMaster (1820–1886), was editor of Freeman's Journal. The son of a Scots-Irish Presbyterian minister, he converted to Catholicism in ...
Dennis Joseph Sullivan (born March 17, 1945) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Camden in New Jersey since 2013. He served as vicar general and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 2004 to 2013.