Mary Patricia McAleese is an Irish activist lawyer,academic,author,and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997,having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson,making her the second female president of Ireland,and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term. Born in Ardoyne,north Belfast,McAleese is the first president of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.
Newry is a city in Northern Ireland,standing on the Clanrye river in counties Down and Armagh. It is near the border with the Republic of Ireland,on the main route between Belfast and Dublin. The population was 27,913 in 2021.
Thomas O'Hagan,1st Baron O'Hagan,KP,PC (Ire),QC,was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1868 to 1874 and again from 1880 to 1881.
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She teaches and writes on bioethics,comparative constitutional law,property,and human rights in international law. She supports government bans on abortion services and "writes forcefully against the expansion of abortion rights."
Martin O'Brien is an Irish journalist,newspaper columnist,broadcaster,media/communications consultant and speech writer. He specializes in religious affairs and is the Northern Correspondent of The Irish Catholic newspaper. He covered the election of Pope Francis for BBC Northern Ireland. He left the BBC on 31 March 2013,having been on the staff for 28 years,and has established his own business,Martin O'Brien Media,based in Belfast.
Holy Cross College (HCC) is a Catholic higher-secondary school for girls,located at Tejgaon in Dhaka,Bangladesh. It serves students of class 11 and class 12. It was founded in 1950 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
The Catholic Church in the United Kingdom is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope. While there is no ecclesiastical jurisdiction corresponding to the political union,this article refers to the Catholic Church's geographical representation in mainland Britain as well as Northern Ireland,ever since the establishment of the UK's predecessor Kingdom of Great Britain by the Union of the Crowns in 1707.
The Order of Pope Pius IX,also referred as the Pian Order,is a papal order of knighthood originally founded by Pope Pius IV in 1560. Currently,it is the highest honor conferred by the Holy See. The awarding of the order fell into disuse and was re-instituted by Pope Pius IX as a continuation on 17 June 1847.
St Colman's College is a Roman Catholic English-medium grammar school for boys,situated in Newry,County Armagh,Northern Ireland.
Holy See–Ireland relations are foreign relations between the Holy See and Ireland. The majority of Irish people identify as Roman Catholic,according to census data. However,views on actual church dogma both on social and spiritual matters varies significantly,and weekly mass attendance is below 40%. The Holy See has an Apostolic Nunciature in Dublin.
India-Holy See relations are the bilateral relations between the India and Holy See,which is sovereign over the Vatican City. Formal bilateral relations between the two exist since 12 June 1948. An Apostolic Delegation existed from 1881. The Holy See has a nunciature in New Delhi while India has accredited its embassy in Vienna,Austria to the Holy See as well. India's Ambassador in Bern has traditionally been accredited to the Holy See. Since 2020,Jaideep Mazumdar,India's ambassador to Austria has been the ambassador to the Holy See. Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli was appointed as the Apostolic Nuncio to India in March 2021.
The Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman or Newry Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Newry,Northern Ireland. It acts as the seat of the Bishop of Dromore,and the Mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,over 200,000 people visited the cathedral each year. The cathedral sits on Newry's Main Street and is a Grade A listed building.
Miguel Humberto Díaz is an American theologian,diplomat and commentator who served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5,2009. He resigned on November 5,2012,and was immediately named University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton. He was the first Hispanic U.S. Ambassador accredited to the Holy See.
Edward Joseph Adams is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1976. He was the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain from 2017 to 2020 and held earlier postings in Greece,Asia,Africa and Central America.
Kenneth Francis Hackett served as the United States Ambassador to the Holy See from August 2013 until January 2017. He was previously president of Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Between 1923 and 1936,the Imperial War Graves Commission erected a series of memorial tablets in French and Belgian cathedrals to commemorate the British Empire dead of the First World War. The tablets were erected in towns in which British Army or Empire troops had been quartered.
Muredach Benedict Camillas Dynan (1938–2021) was a university professor and senior academic administrator.
