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| ==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
| ⚫ | He was born in ], ] and was ordained as a priest for ] on ] ]. He served as a missionary and was an official of the ] in Rome, when he was chosen by Pope ] to be one of his private secretaries. | ||
| ⚫ | On Pope Paul's death he remained in service as a private secretary to his successor, Pope ]. He also acted as chaplain to the Vatican's ]. {{Fact|date=October 2007}} | ||
| ⚫ | He was born in |
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| ⚫ | On Pope Paul's death he remained in service as a private secretary to his successor, Pope ].{{Fact|date=October 2007}} | ||
| He also acted as chaplain to the Vatican's Swiss Guard. | |||
| ==The death of John Paul I== | ==The death of John Paul I== | ||
| ⚫ | It was John Magee who is said to have found Pope ] dead in bed on the morning of ] ] though his public accounts of the event have been contradictory. ] in his book ''A Thief in the Night'', specially commissioned by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, after a thorough forensic examination of all the facts surrounding the late Pontiff's death was unable to exclude that the Pope's secretary was in some way unwittingly involved in the Pope's death.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} | ||
| ⚫ | In a radio interview in 1990, ] religious affairs correspondent Kieron Wood asked Bishop Magee why he had claimed that he found the body of the dead Pope, when it was then public knowledge that the body had been found by a nun. "I did find the body of His Holiness", he replied. "I just didn't find it first." | ||
| ⚫ | It was John Magee who is said to have found Pope ] dead in bed on the morning of ] |
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| ⚫ | In a radio interview in 1990, RTÉ religious affairs correspondent Kieron Wood asked Bishop Magee why he had claimed that he found the body of the dead Pope, when it was then public knowledge that the body had been found by a nun. "I did find the body of His Holiness |
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| ==Service under John Paul II== | ==Service under John Paul II== | ||
| ⚫ | He remained for a time in the same capacity with Pope ], elected on ] ], but was in 1982 made papal ] and continued in this post until on ] ] he was appointed Bishop of the ], in Ireland. He was ordained bishop on ] ], the 25th anniversary of his ordination as a priest, by ] at ]. | ||
| ⚫ | In January 2007, Cardinal ], Archbishop of Krakow and former private secretary of Pope John Paul II for forty years, published a book of reminiscences of his life with the Pope entitled ''Una Vita con Karol'' (Rizzoli, Milan). Although Dziwisz mentions other colleagues such as Archbishop Kabongo and Mons, who also acted as private secretaries to the Pope, he does not recollect Magee at any point in the 250 page book. {{Fact|date=October 2007}} | ||
| ⚫ | He remained for a time in the same capacity with Pope ], elected on ] ], but was in 1982 made papal ] and continued in this post until on ] ] he was appointed Bishop of the ], in Ireland. |
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| ⚫ | In January 2007, Cardinal |
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| ==Bishop of Cloyne== | ==Bishop of Cloyne== | ||
| {{Unreferencedsection|date=October 2007}} | {{Unreferencedsection|date=October 2007}} | ||
| Magee's efforts on behalf of the ] in relation to the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland coincide with the period of time when the Catholic and Protestant scouting movements of Ireland joined together as a multi-denominational organisation. {{fact}} Bishop Magee's pastoral strategy has always placed heavy emphasis on the promotion of vocations to the priesthood but, after some initial success, the number of vocations in the diocese of Cloyne entered a period of slow decline, with numbers of seminarians dropping from 46 to 5. {{fact}} | |||
| ⚫ | This trend has been reflected all over the island of Ireland. However, with five seminarians, Cloyne is the fourth most populated seminarian group in Ireland, after Raphoe, Dublin and Meath. Bishop Magee has announced his intention of tackling the ] by encouraging lay persons of both sexes to become active in Church life at all levels. He appointed Ireland's first female 'faith developer' and entrusted her with the task of transforming an Irish rural diocese into a cosmopolitan pastoral model using techniques borrowed from several urban dioceses in the United States. {{fact}} | ||
| Bishop Magee has played a pivotal role in the Irish Episcopal Conference where he has been a leading figure in the modernization of the liturgy in Ireland, especially in championing the avant garde. His efforts on behalf of the Conference in relation to the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland have been similarly modernising, and cover the period in which the Catholic and Protestant scouting movements of Ireland joined together as a multi-denominational organisation. This promotes unity within the community and allows people of other religions to join scouting as well, which is an option that was previously unavailable to them. | |||
| ⚫ | Bishop Magee's moral authority in the diocese of Cloyne has, according to some, been impaired by his recent public dispute with the ], a local conservationist group in Cobh which has organised an effective and professional opposition to the Bishop's controversial plans to re-order the interior of ], plans similar to the much-criticized re-orderings seen in Killarney, Cork and Limerick cathedrals in recent years. In an oral hearing conducted by An Bord Pleanala, the Irish Planning Board, it emerged that irregularities had occurred in the planning application that were traced to Cobh Town Council which accommodated the Bishop's plans to modify the Victorian interior designed by ] and ]. On ] ], An Bord Pleanala directed Cobh Town Council to refuse the Bishop's application . Bishop Magee was in Lourdes when news of this broke. | ||
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| ⚫ | Bishop Magee published a pastoral letter in the diocese of Cloyne in July 2006 explaining that he would not be challenging the decision of An Bord Pleanala by instituting a judicial review in the Irish High Court. A diocesan official explained that the bishop did not wish to proceed because of the financial implications of such an action and because of the bishop's desire to avoid a Church-State clash. Claims that An Bord Pleanala's decision infringed the constitutional property rights of religious bodies were dismissed when it was revealed that the cathedral is the property of a secular trust established in Irish law.<ref></ref> It is estimated that Bishop Magee expended over €200,000 in his unsuccessful bid to modernize the interior of Cobh Cathedral to bring it into line with what he claimed were ] guidelines. <ref></ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Bishop Magee's moral authority in the diocese of Cloyne has, according to some, been impaired by his recent public dispute with the ], a local conservationist group in Cobh which has organised an effective and professional opposition to the Bishop's controversial plans to re-order the interior of ], plans similar to the much-criticized re-orderings seen in Killarney, Cork and Limerick cathedrals in recent years. |
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| ⚫ | The Cobh Cathedral controversy recently drew further international attention as a result of a ] news item which emphasised the controversy's wider significance for what ], religious affairs correspondent for the '']'', referred to as the waning of Bishop Magee's influence and the irony of his having provoked the opposition of some of his closest supporters in the parish of Cobh by his desire to remodel the interior of St. Colman's Cathedral. <ref></ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Bishop Magee published a pastoral letter in the diocese of Cloyne |
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| ⚫ | ''Who's Who in Ireland'' describes Magee as "remote low profile". It comments that many ecclestiastical observers "expected him to return to ] by now" and highlights the fact that the "] still eludes him" (cf. Who's Who in Ireland , p. 233). | ||
| Public interest now focuses on who will pay the substantial bill incurred by the friends of St. Colman's Cathedral in representing the people of Cobh to preserve the cathedral in its former glory. | |||
| ⚫ | Bishop Magee's failing health continues to be a source of concern for his diocese. In 2007, for the third year in succession, he has failed to complete his personal schedule of Confirmations in the diocese of ]. It is unusual in ] for a bishop to delegate Confirmations to locally-based priests due to the increased workload of Bishops. {{fact}} | ||
| ⚫ | The Cobh Cathedral controversy recently drew further international attention as a result of a ] news item which emphasised the controversy's wider significance for what ], religious affairs correspondent for |
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| ⚫ | On ] ] prayers were requested for Bishop Magee who was admitted to the ] Hospital in ] where he underwent a knee replacement operation. All official engagements were cancelled for the next ten weeks to allow the Bishop sufficient time to recuperate. After this ten-week period, the Bishop, described as well rested, began catching up on his work. The annual clerical changes were issued, and available on the Cloyne diocese website. | ||
| ⚫ | ''Who's Who in Ireland'' describes Magee as "remote low profile". |
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| ⚫ | In July 2007 ''The Last Confession'' opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London's ]. The drama focuses on the power-broking "Cardinal Benelli" and events surrounding the death of ]. In the play, the Pope's valet claims that Magee was responsible for the Pontiff's death and that he fled into oblivion after committing the act. The drama also includes a scene in which Magee is interrogated by a committee of Cardinals and explains that he had to leave Rome after the Pope's death because he could not stay. <ref></ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Bishop Magee's failing health continues to be a source of concern for his diocese. In 2007, for the third year in succession, he has failed to complete his personal schedule of Confirmations in |
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| ⚫ | On 12 May 2007 prayers were requested for Bishop Magee who was admitted to the ] Hospital in ] where he underwent a knee replacement operation. |
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| ⚫ | In July 2007 ''The Last Confession'' opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London's ]. The drama focuses on the power-broking Cardinal Benelli and events surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I. In the play, the Pope's valet claims that Magee was responsible for the Pontiff's death and that he fled into oblivion after committing the act. The drama also includes a scene in which Magee is interrogated by a committee of Cardinals and explains that he had to leave Rome after the Pope's death because he could not stay. |
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| ==International profile== | ==International profile== | ||
| ⚫ | On the death of Pope ] he was greatly sought after by the media and spent much time in Rome, making himself available to the various Italian television channels. In a Christmas (2005) message to the diocese of Cloyne, Bishop Magee, commenting on how he learned over the phone of the grief being poured out by the people of his diocese at the Pope's death, explained that his "heart went out to all of them and gave as much time as possibly could to sharing thoughts and, indeed, grief through the various channels of the media". "Indeed I was most grateful to all the journalists who interviewed me on that occasion." <ref></ref> | ||
| ⚫ | On the death of Pope ] he was greatly sought after by the media and spent much time in Rome, making himself available to the various Italian television channels. |
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| ==Last ''ad Limina'' Visit== | ==Last ''ad Limina'' Visit== | ||
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| Bishop John Magee made what is expected to be his last '']'' visit to the Vatican from 15-31 October 2006. The visit, which is made every five years, will next take place in 2012, almost a year subsequent to the bishop's 75th birthday in September 2011 when he will be required to offer to retire under section 401 of the ]. | Bishop John Magee made what is expected to be his last '']'' visit to the Vatican from 15-31 October 2006. The visit, which is made every five years, will next take place in 2012, almost a year subsequent to the bishop's 75th birthday in September 2011 when he will be required to offer to retire under section 401 of the ]. | ||
| Bishop Magee was happy to discuss the contents of his conversation with the Pope at a meeting of his liturgical advisers and diocesan clergy held in November 2006 at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork City. |
Bishop Magee was happy to discuss the contents of his conversation with the Pope at a meeting of his liturgical advisers and diocesan clergy held in November 2006 at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork City. The Bishop mentioned that he had been closely questioned on several aspects of his proposals to re-order Cobh Cathedral. It was obvious, he said, that the pope had been kept well informed of the entire issue. However, an article by Kieron Wood in '']'' in February 2006 <ref> </ref> suggested that Magee did not have the backing of the Vatican in his proposals for St Colman's. This, indeed turned out to be the case when An Bord Pleanala's oral hearing requested Magee to provide a copy of the letter from the Vatican in which he claimed he had been given approval for the modernizing of CObh Cathedral. The only letter he was able to produce to substantiate that claim was congratulatory latter dated 9 December 2003 ] of the Congregation for the Sacraments which the Magee asked for. The full text of this letter is photographically reproduced in a publication called ''Conserving Cobh Cathedral: The Case Stated'' pp. 108-109. | ||
| It is understood that Bishop Magee's contribution to this visit concerned not only his diocese of Cloyne but also ceremonial matters (an area of expertise to Bishop Magee) on behalf of the Conference who were anxious to maintain good relations on important subjects with the various Vatican offices. |
It is understood that Bishop Magee's contribution to this visit concerned not only his diocese of Cloyne but also ceremonial matters (an area of expertise to Bishop Magee) on behalf of the Conference who were anxious to maintain good relations on important subjects with the various Vatican offices. {{fact}} Magee also facilitated the broadcasting of a life of Pope John Paul I on the Italian State Television (RAI) to coincide with the '']'' visit. The programme had been made several months earlier. It is reported that the ] broadcast drew mixed reactions, especially in Italian ecclesiastical circles. Official Vatican criticism of the film and those involved in it came swiftly in the form of an interview given to the Italian Catholic daily '']'' on ] ] by ], Cardinal Secretary of State to ]. Cardinal Bertone queried the portrait of John Paul I painted by the RAI production. | ||
| Bishop Magee remained in Rome following the departure of the other Irish bishops as their representative at a meeting of the International Commission for ]. | Bishop Magee remained in Rome following the departure of the other Irish bishops as their representative at a meeting of the International Commission for ]. | ||
| ==Summorum Pontificum== | ==Summorum Pontificum== | ||
| ⚫ | On ] ], Bishop Magee circulated a letter to all his clergy outlining his policy with regard to the ] of Pope ], ''Summorum Pontificum'', liberalizing use of ] in the Catholic Church. The bishop wished "to emphasize that welcomed the Motu Proprio" and called on his priests to implement it in their parishes, even going as far as to purchase "a number of copies of the Roman Missal, promulgated in 1962 by Blessed ]" and to making them available to anyone looking for them. <ref></ref> | ||
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| ⚫ | On 16 November 2007, Bishop Magee circulated a letter to all his clergy outlining his policy with regard to the ] of Pope ], ''Summorum Pontificum'', liberalizing use of ] in the Catholic Church. |
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John Magee, SPS (b. 24 September 1936) is a Roman Catholic bishop.
Early life
He was born in Newry, Northern Ireland and was ordained as a priest for the Kiltegan Fathers on St Patrick's Day 1962. He served as a missionary and was an official of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in Rome, when he was chosen by Pope Paul VI to be one of his private secretaries.
On Pope Paul's death he remained in service as a private secretary to his successor, Pope John Paul I. He also acted as chaplain to the Vatican's Swiss Guard.
The death of John Paul I
It was John Magee who is said to have found Pope John Paul I dead in bed on the morning of September 28 1978 though his public accounts of the event have been contradictory. John Cornwell (writer) in his book A Thief in the Night, specially commissioned by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, after a thorough forensic examination of all the facts surrounding the late Pontiff's death was unable to exclude that the Pope's secretary was in some way unwittingly involved in the Pope's death.
In a radio interview in 1990, RTÉ religious affairs correspondent Kieron Wood asked Bishop Magee why he had claimed that he found the body of the dead Pope, when it was then public knowledge that the body had been found by a nun. "I did find the body of His Holiness", he replied. "I just didn't find it first."
Service under John Paul II
He remained for a time in the same capacity with Pope John Paul II, elected on October 16 1978, but was in 1982 made papal Master of Ceremonies and continued in this post until on February 17 1987 he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Cloyne, in Ireland. He was ordained bishop on March 17 1987, the 25th anniversary of his ordination as a priest, by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica.
In January 2007, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow and former private secretary of Pope John Paul II for forty years, published a book of reminiscences of his life with the Pope entitled Una Vita con Karol (Rizzoli, Milan). Although Dziwisz mentions other colleagues such as Archbishop Kabongo and Mons, who also acted as private secretaries to the Pope, he does not recollect Magee at any point in the 250 page book.
Bishop of Cloyne
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Magee's efforts on behalf of the Irish Episcopal Conference in relation to the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland coincide with the period of time when the Catholic and Protestant scouting movements of Ireland joined together as a multi-denominational organisation. Bishop Magee's pastoral strategy has always placed heavy emphasis on the promotion of vocations to the priesthood but, after some initial success, the number of vocations in the diocese of Cloyne entered a period of slow decline, with numbers of seminarians dropping from 46 to 5.
This trend has been reflected all over the island of Ireland. However, with five seminarians, Cloyne is the fourth most populated seminarian group in Ireland, after Raphoe, Dublin and Meath. Bishop Magee has announced his intention of tackling the shortage of vocations by encouraging lay persons of both sexes to become active in Church life at all levels. He appointed Ireland's first female 'faith developer' and entrusted her with the task of transforming an Irish rural diocese into a cosmopolitan pastoral model using techniques borrowed from several urban dioceses in the United States.
Bishop Magee's moral authority in the diocese of Cloyne has, according to some, been impaired by his recent public dispute with the Friends of St. Colman's Cathedral, a local conservationist group in Cobh which has organised an effective and professional opposition to the Bishop's controversial plans to re-order the interior of Cobh Cathedral, plans similar to the much-criticized re-orderings seen in Killarney, Cork and Limerick cathedrals in recent years. In an oral hearing conducted by An Bord Pleanala, the Irish Planning Board, it emerged that irregularities had occurred in the planning application that were traced to Cobh Town Council which accommodated the Bishop's plans to modify the Victorian interior designed by E.W. Pugin and George Ashlin. On June 2 2006, An Bord Pleanala directed Cobh Town Council to refuse the Bishop's application . Bishop Magee was in Lourdes when news of this broke.
Bishop Magee published a pastoral letter in the diocese of Cloyne in July 2006 explaining that he would not be challenging the decision of An Bord Pleanala by instituting a judicial review in the Irish High Court. A diocesan official explained that the bishop did not wish to proceed because of the financial implications of such an action and because of the bishop's desire to avoid a Church-State clash. Claims that An Bord Pleanala's decision infringed the constitutional property rights of religious bodies were dismissed when it was revealed that the cathedral is the property of a secular trust established in Irish law. It is estimated that Bishop Magee expended over €200,000 in his unsuccessful bid to modernize the interior of Cobh Cathedral to bring it into line with what he claimed were Vatican II guidelines.
The Cobh Cathedral controversy recently drew further international attention as a result of a BBC World Service news item which emphasised the controversy's wider significance for what Patsy McGarry, religious affairs correspondent for the Irish Times, referred to as the waning of Bishop Magee's influence and the irony of his having provoked the opposition of some of his closest supporters in the parish of Cobh by his desire to remodel the interior of St. Colman's Cathedral.
Who's Who in Ireland describes Magee as "remote low profile". It comments that many ecclestiastical observers "expected him to return to Vatican City by now" and highlights the fact that the "red hat still eludes him" (cf. Who's Who in Ireland , p. 233).
Bishop Magee's failing health continues to be a source of concern for his diocese. In 2007, for the third year in succession, he has failed to complete his personal schedule of Confirmations in the diocese of Cloyne. It is unusual in Ireland for a bishop to delegate Confirmations to locally-based priests due to the increased workload of Bishops.
On 12 May 2007 prayers were requested for Bishop Magee who was admitted to the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork where he underwent a knee replacement operation. All official engagements were cancelled for the next ten weeks to allow the Bishop sufficient time to recuperate. After this ten-week period, the Bishop, described as well rested, began catching up on his work. The annual clerical changes were issued, and available on the Cloyne diocese website.
In July 2007 The Last Confession opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London's West End. The drama focuses on the power-broking "Cardinal Benelli" and events surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I. In the play, the Pope's valet claims that Magee was responsible for the Pontiff's death and that he fled into oblivion after committing the act. The drama also includes a scene in which Magee is interrogated by a committee of Cardinals and explains that he had to leave Rome after the Pope's death because he could not stay.
International profile
On the death of Pope John Paul II he was greatly sought after by the media and spent much time in Rome, making himself available to the various Italian television channels. In a Christmas (2005) message to the diocese of Cloyne, Bishop Magee, commenting on how he learned over the phone of the grief being poured out by the people of his diocese at the Pope's death, explained that his "heart went out to all of them and gave as much time as possibly could to sharing thoughts and, indeed, grief through the various channels of the media". "Indeed I was most grateful to all the journalists who interviewed me on that occasion."
Last ad Limina Visit
| This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Bishop John Magee made what is expected to be his last ad Limina visit to the Vatican from 15-31 October 2006. The visit, which is made every five years, will next take place in 2012, almost a year subsequent to the bishop's 75th birthday in September 2011 when he will be required to offer to retire under section 401 of the Code of Canon Law.
Bishop Magee was happy to discuss the contents of his conversation with the Pope at a meeting of his liturgical advisers and diocesan clergy held in November 2006 at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork City. The Bishop mentioned that he had been closely questioned on several aspects of his proposals to re-order Cobh Cathedral. It was obvious, he said, that the pope had been kept well informed of the entire issue. However, an article by Kieron Wood in The Sunday Business Post in February 2006 suggested that Magee did not have the backing of the Vatican in his proposals for St Colman's. This, indeed turned out to be the case when An Bord Pleanala's oral hearing requested Magee to provide a copy of the letter from the Vatican in which he claimed he had been given approval for the modernizing of CObh Cathedral. The only letter he was able to produce to substantiate that claim was congratulatory latter dated 9 December 2003 [no. 158/99/L) to the team of architects who worked on the Cathedral project from Francis Cardinal Arinze of the Congregation for the Sacraments which the Magee asked for. The full text of this letter is photographically reproduced in a publication called Conserving Cobh Cathedral: The Case Stated pp. 108-109.
It is understood that Bishop Magee's contribution to this visit concerned not only his diocese of Cloyne but also ceremonial matters (an area of expertise to Bishop Magee) on behalf of the Conference who were anxious to maintain good relations on important subjects with the various Vatican offices. Magee also facilitated the broadcasting of a life of Pope John Paul I on the Italian State Television (RAI) to coincide with the ad Limina visit. The programme had been made several months earlier. It is reported that the RAI broadcast drew mixed reactions, especially in Italian ecclesiastical circles. Official Vatican criticism of the film and those involved in it came swiftly in the form of an interview given to the Italian Catholic daily Avvenire on 26 October 2006 by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State to Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Bertone queried the portrait of John Paul I painted by the RAI production.
Bishop Magee remained in Rome following the departure of the other Irish bishops as their representative at a meeting of the International Commission for Eucharistic Congresses.
Summorum Pontificum
On 16 November 2007, Bishop Magee circulated a letter to all his clergy outlining his policy with regard to the Motu Proprio of Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum Pontificum, liberalizing use of Tridentine Mass in the Catholic Church. The bishop wished "to emphasize that welcomed the Motu Proprio" and called on his priests to implement it in their parishes, even going as far as to purchase "a number of copies of the Roman Missal, promulgated in 1962 by Blessed Pope John XXIII" and to making them available to anyone looking for them.
References
- Friends of St. Colman's Cathedral site
- Archiseek.com
- BBC report on St Colman's Cathedral controversy
- The Last Confession
- Cloyne Diocese website
- Business Post archives
- WDTPRS
- WDTPRS
Links
- BBC News Service, James Helm
- Memories of the late Pope John Paul II, Christmas Message of 2005 by Bishop Magee
- Was the Pope Murdered?
- Bishop to sue over coverage of disputed sacking
- Nation's wrath falls on bishop who wants to redesign cathedral
- Vatican refuses to intervene in Cobh cathedral argument
- Papal Secretary, Pro-Life Champions Reach Out to Class of 2006
- Bishop intervenes on behalf of redundant sugar workers
| Preceded byVirgilio Cardinal Noè | Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations 1982 - 17 February 1987 |
Succeeded byPiero Marini |