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Pope appoints his first Irish bishop

Monsignor Kevin Gillespie has served as Diocesan Administrator for almost two years.

Bishop Coll, 62, and a native of Saint Johnston in east Donegal, will return to the north west, having served as Bishop of Ossory since January 2023.

Bishop Coll was ordained a priest in 1988 after studying in Maynooth. Following ordination, he studied in Rome and in Trinity College Dublin, before returning to Rome to complete a doctorate.

He was previously a chaplin and a teacher at St Eunan’s College in Letterkenny, chaplain in Pobalscoil na Rossan and curate in the parish of Dungloe.

In 2001 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Religious Education at Saint Mary’s University College, Belfast

He returned to the Diocese of Raphoe in 2020, where he was appointed parish priest of Drumholm in Donegal.

He was subsequently appointed parish priest of Tawnawilly in Donegal Town in 2021.

His appointment as Bishop of Ossory by Pope Francis was announced on 28 October 2022. Bishop Coll was ordained Bishop of Ossory on 22 January 2023 by Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Archbishop of Dublin, who himself had previously served as Bishop of Ossory.


BBC News

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