A VETERAN PASTOR
We tender our cordial felicitations to the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy, S.M., on the attainment of his fortieth year in the sacred ministry. The Yen. Archdeacon was educated for the priesthood in France and Dundalk. He arrived in Wellington in 1879. For some years he was stationed in various parts of the South Island, and later he was one of the four priests who established and opened St. Patrick’s College. For six years Father Devoy occupied the position of procurator of the college, giving up his duties to take charge of the Te Aro parochial district. He has been Vicar-General of the archdiocese and Provincial of the Marist Order, and for the last five or six years parish priest at Newtown. During the long course of years devoted to the service of his Divine Master, countless souls have profited by his spiritual ministrations. We trust the venerable Archdeacon may be spared to celebrate the golden jubilee of his ordination.
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New Zealand Tablet, 23 August 1917, Page 23
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