John Duggan (bishop)

John Coote Duggan (7 April 1918 – 20 July 2000[1]) was the 11th Bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry from 1970 to 1985.[2]

Educated at The High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin[3] and ordained in 1942,[4] his first post was a curacy at St Luke's, Cork.[5] He was later the incumbent at Portarlington, then St Paul's Glenageary, Dublin[6] and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Tuam.

References
  1. Attends funeral of friend Desmond Llewelyn
  2. “A New History of Ireland” Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  3. “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  5. Church web site
  6. Details of parish
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