Neal McCabe
Bishop Neale MacCabe CM, (sometimes spelt Neale MacCabe) was an Irish Vincentian priest, who served as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise. From Crosdrum, County Meath, he was educated in the Vincentian Castleknock College, in Dublin and trained for the priesthood at the Irish College in Paris.[1] He served in St. Vincents, Sundays Well, Cork from 1865 until in 1866[2] when Dr. McCabe was appointed Rector of the Irish College in Paris, and there in 1867 he was ordained a Bishop for Ardagh and Clonmacnoise.[3]
Bishop MacCabe died in office on July 22, 1870, he took ill at Marseilles, on the way to Civitavecchia, going to the first vatican council. His funeral was in Paris and his internment in a vault of Head House of Vincentians.
References
- 'Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish Catholicism' By Desmond Bowen, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- 'The Churches of Cork City: An Illustrated History' By Antoin O'Callaghan
- Bishop Neal McCabe Catholic Hierarchy
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| Preceded by John Kilduff |
Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise 1868–1870 |
Succeeded by Rev. Dr. George Michael Conroy |
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