SILVER JUBILEE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 683, 7 June 1929, Page 16

SILVER JUBILEE

MONSIGNOR CAHILL’S ORDINATION CELEBRATION ON SUNDAY The twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood will be celebrated by the Very Rev. Monsignor Cahill, parish priest at Onehunga, on Sunday. TT was pn June 12, 1904, in the town of Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland, that Monsignor Cahill was ordained by the Rev. Dr. Foley. He was born in County Tipperary in 1579, and studied at Mount Melleray, and St. Patrick’s College, Carlow. In the year of his ordination the young priest came out to New Zealand, and was for two years assistant at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, before being appointed parish priest at Huntly, where he remained until 1913. For a short time he was administrator of the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby, and later, administrator at the Cathedral. Then followed a year as parish priest at Parnell, before taking up his present appointment at. Onehunga. Outstanding service to his Church resulted in his being made a monsignor in 1924, and in 1927 he had the dignity of protonotary apostolic conferred upon him. On Sunday morning the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Cleary, will preside at Solemn High Mass, which -will be sung in the parish church at Onehunga.

A large and representative gathering of Monsignor Cahill’s fellow-clergy is expected to attend. His parishioners will honour him at a dinner at the convent school.