Anthony McFeely

Anthony Columba McFeely (4 February 1909 – 7 October 1986)[1] was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[2]

McFeely was born in Ballybofey and educated at St Columb's College, Derry.[3] He studied for the priesthood at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and the Pontifical Irish College, Rome. He was President of St Columb's from 1950 to 1959; and parish priest of Strabane from then until his appointment to the episcopate, as Bishop of Raphoe in Co.Donegal.[4]

References
  1. G Catholic
  2. Catholic Hierarchy
  3. Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 158. ISBN 1870963008.
  4. RC Bishops of Raphoe


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