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The Kiltegan Fathers origins stem from an appeal by Bishop Joseph (Ignatius) Shanahan of the Holy Ghost Order, in 1920 to the seminary students in Maynooth College for missionaries to Nigeria, Africa, where he was bishop; later that year Fr. Whitney accompanied Bishop Shanahan to Africa.
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.
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.
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.
Kiltegan (Irish: Cill Téagáin, meaning 'church of Tegan') [1] is a village in west County Wicklow, Ireland, on the R747 regional road close to the border with County Carlow. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. [ 1 ]
He joined the Holy Ghost Order in Beauvais, France in 1886, where his uncle Pat Walsh (Brother Adelm) had also joined the Holy Ghost Fathers. He returned to Ireland, to Rockwell College, where he served as prefect and dean of studies. He was ordained in 1900 in Blackrock College, and went to Nigeria in 1902. [3]
Waite Hockin Stirling, Bishop of the Falkland Islands. Waite Hockin Stirling (1829 – 19 November 1923) was a nineteenth-century missionary with the Patagonian Missionary Society (later known as the South American Missionary Society) and was the first Anglican Bishop of the Falkland Islands. [1] He was brother-in-law to Thomas Phinn. [2]
Bishop John Christopher Mahon, D.C.L, S.P.S. (1922–2004), was an Irish born priest a member of the Kiltegan Fathers. He served as Bishop of Lodwar, Turkana, Kenya from 1978 until 2000. [1] Mahon was born on 25 December 1922 in Killurin, Killeigh, County Offaly, Ireland. [2] He was educated at Tullamore C.B.S., and Knockbeg College, Carlow.