Joseph Duffy (bishop)

Joseph Duffy ( born February 3, 1934 in Dublin, Ireland) is a retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher in Ireland.

Life

Joseph Duffy, the eldest of four children of Edward Duffy and Brigid MacEntee, attended St. Louis ' Infant School in Clones, County Monaghan and the St. Macartan 's Colleg in Monaghan. He studied Catholic theology and philosophy at St. Patrick 's College, Maynooth and received on 22 June 1958, the ordination. Subsequently, he studied at the National University of Ireland, where he reached the Master in 1960 with a thesis on the dialect of South Tipperary. After studying Duffy taught for twelve years Irish and French at St. Macartan 's Colleg. From 1972 to 1979, Duffy curator in the parish of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.

On July 7, 1979 Duffy was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher at the age of 45 years. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich.

During the 1980s, Duffy was chairman of the Liturgical Commission of the Irish Bishops' Conference. In the 1990s, he spent several years speaker of the Irish Episcopal Conference.

On 6 May 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.