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Featured Author: Bishop Joseph Duffy

Bishop Joseph Duffy was born in Dublin and received his education at St. Louis' Infant School, Clones, County Monaghan, and at St. Macartan's College, Monaghan. He studied for the priesthood at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Clogher on 22 June 1958. On 7 July 1979, Duffy was named Bishop-elect of Clogher, he was the first Irish bishop to be appointed by Pope John Paul II. He was ordained a bishop in St. Macartan's Cathedral, Monaghan Town. He is the author of ‘Patrick in His Own Words’ and ‘On Lough Derg’.