Ireland: More Episcopal Consecrations Than Priestly Ordinations

en.news6 years ago

More bishops will be consecrated in Ireland in 2020 than diocesan priests, reports Independent.ie (August 18).

The only priestly ordination in the country’s 26 dioceses will take place next Sunday in Tuam Archdiocese.

On the contrary, Achonry Bishop elect Paul Dempsey will be ordained on August 20, and Kilmore Bishop elect Martin Hayes in September.

In Ireland, a once very Catholic country, from the 1920s to Vatican II, an average of about 90 priests were ordained each year. The abysmal quality of bishops chosen by John Paul II greatly contributed to the downfall of the Irish Church.

Two Irishmen have been ordained for the Society St PiusX in 2020.

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F M Shyanguya6 years ago

@en.news consistent themes: digs at the Church and the great and saintly Pontiff. This is telling of them/its editors.

Ultraviolet6 years ago

"The abysmal quality of bishops chosen by John Paul II greatly contributed to the downfall of the Irish Church". -as did the UK's socialism in general.

Ultraviolet6 years ago

Nothing to do with the UK? :D Sure. You have only 499 kilometers' worth of "nothing to do the UK" not counting the political fall out. Factions within the Dall are freaking out over how there's going to be a hard border now and Brexit is going to affect everything from tourism and the VAT to how medical care is handled.
That's Much Ado About "Nothing", indeed. ;-)

jimcat6 years ago

The OP is correct.
Ireland and the UK are entirely different nation-states; they are no more connected than Poland and Swaziland - with the exception of the 6 counties of Ulster, which are politically, but not ecclesiastically, part of the UK.
Ireland, including Ulster, forms a single province of the Catholic Church and has its own bishops. The bishops of England and Wales, and the bishops of Scotland, have no authority in the Church in Ireland and no influence over who is chosen to be a bishop of any of the Irish dioceses.