COADJUTOR BISHOP OF DUNEDIN
Catholic Appointment
(p>y Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. January 19.
’(’he Rev. Dr. Hugh O’Neill, who is at present resident at St. Kevins College, Oaniaru, lias been appointed Roman Cutliolic Coudjutor .Bishop of Duiieuiu t with the right of succession. Dr. O'Neill was born in Dunedin, n son of Hie late Mr. Edward O'Neill and Mrs. Elizabeth O'Neill. Dunedin. He was educated at the Convent of Mercy School, Mosgiel, and the Christian Brothers' High School. Dunedin, and entered Holv Cross College, Mosgiel, in 1914. Dr. O'Neill was the first priest to be ordained bv Bishop Whyte, the present. Bishop of Dunedin, the ceremony taking place iu 1921. After his ordination, Dr. O’Neill went to the Irish College in .Rome, and alter two years' study, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Canon Law. For the next 10 years he was a professor at Holy Cross College, .Mosgiel. and ill 1933 became parish priest at Mosgiel. He remained there for five years, and for the past four years lias been chaplain at St. Kevin's College, and national organizer of Hie pontifical missionary works.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 4
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184COADJUTOR BISHOP OF DUNEDIN Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 4
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