John Gerald Neville

Last updated

John Gerald Neville, DD, C.S.Sp. (1858-1943), was an Irish-born priest, a member of the Holy Ghost Fathers, who served in Africa.

Life

Born in Dublin in 1858, he was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin and in France where he was ordained a priest in the Missions’ Seminary, Chapel, Chevilly, in 1885. [1] He worked at Blackrock College until 1903.

In 1913, Neville was ordained Titular Bishop of Carrhæ in Blackrock College's chapel, the first such ordination in the college. [2] Bishop Neville was also appointed Apostolic Vicar of Zanzibar, (then administered from Kenya), from 1913 until 1931 when aged 72 he resigned but remained Apostolic administrator until 1943 when he died. He was succeeded in 1932 as Vicar Apostolic by another Irishman, John William Heffernan.

Neville was also a trained doctor, and the Bishop John Neville, C.S.Sp. Medical Dispensary in Mbokombu, Mosbi, Tanzania is named in his honour. [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John D'Alton</span> Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Armagh

John Francis Cardinal D'Alton was an Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh and thus Primate of All Ireland from 1946 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Congregation of the Holy Spirit</span> Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay brothers, and lay associates

The Spiritans is a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. In continental Europe they are known as Spiritans, while in the Anglosphere they are known either as Spiritans or as the Holy Ghost Fathers. Members use the postnominals CSSp.

Robert Patrick Ellison B.Sc., S.T.L., C.S.Sp. is the Roman Catholic Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia. He was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. He went to Blackrock College secondary school, and earned a Science Degree from University College Dublin., following which he went to Rome to study theology at Gregorian University and in 1970 was awarded an STL in dogma. After three years in Gambia he returned to study at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 6 July 1969, for the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. On 25 February 2006 he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul. He was ordained a bishop on 14 May 2006. The Principal Consecrator was Bishop Michael J. Cleary, C. S. Sp.; his Principal Co-Consecrators were Bishop George Sagna, C. S. Sp., and Bishop George Biguzzi, S. X., the bishop of the Diocese of Makeni. Pope Francis accepted his canonical resignation on 30 November 2017.

The Diocese of Zanzibar is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Society of African Missions</span>

The Society of African Missions, also known as the SMA Fathers, is a Catholic religious society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men founded by Melchior de Marion Brésillac in 1856. They serve the people of Africa and those of African descent.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joseph Peacocke (archbishop of Dublin)</span>

Joseph Ferguson Peacocke was a Church of Ireland cleric. He was the Bishop of Meath from 1894 to 1897 and then Archbishop of Dublin from 1897 until 1915. He was also briefly the professor of pastoral theology at Trinity College, Dublin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lawrence Scanlan</span> Irish Catholic missionary

Lawrence Scanlan was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. A missionary and pioneer bishop, he served as the first Bishop of Salt Lake from 1891 until his death in 1915.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Tuohill Murphy</span>

John Baptist Tuohill Murphy, C.S.Sp. was an Irish Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, who served from 1886 to 1899 as the president of the Pittsburgh Catholic College, which was later renamed Duquesne University in 1911 when it gained university status. Later, Murphy was consecrated as a bishop and administered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-Louis in Mauritius until his death.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John C. O'Riordan</span>

The Most Reverend John C. O'Riordan, Bishop Emeritus, C.S.Sp., COR was Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kenema in Sierra Leone.

Bishop Joseph Brendan Whelan, C.S.Sp.(1909-1990), was an Irish Spiritan priest who served as Bishop of Owerri in Nigeria..

Joseph Shanahan B.Sc., C.S.Sp. (1871–1943) was an Irish-born priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans), who served as a bishop in Nigeria – first as prefect apostolic of Lower Niger and then as vicar apostolic of Southern Nigeria.

Bishop Michael Joseph Moloney C.S.Sp. was an Irish born priest of the Holy Ghost Fathers, also known as Spiritans. He served as Bishop of Bathurst in Gambia for 42 of his 54 years as a priest and bishop. He was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) about 1951.

Francis Griffin C.S.Sp. (1893-1983) was an Irish Spiritan priest who served as Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) from 1950 until 1962.

Bishop Ambrose Kelly C.S.Sp was a member of the Holy Ghost Fathers, and served as Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, in Sierre Leone.

Bishop John Joseph "J.J." McCarthy C.S.Sp., was an Irish born, Holy Ghost Father, who served as Bishop to Nairobi, Kenya.

James Leen C.S.Sp. (1888–1949) was an Irish member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, who served a Bishop of Port Louis in Mauritius.

John Joseph O'Gorman C.S.Sp. was an Irish member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, who served as Bishop of Freetown in Sierra Leone, its first Roman Catholic bishop. He was the first Irish member of the order to be appointed Bishop.

The Holy Ghost Missionary College, in Kimmage in Dublin, colloquially known as Kimmage Manor, is Holy Ghost Fathers(Spiritans) institution that has served as a Seminary training missionary priests and spawned two other colleges the Kimmage Mission Institute and the Kimmage Development Studies Centre.The college church, The Church of the Holy Spirit serves as the parish church.

Bartholomew Stanislaus Wilson C.S.Sp. (1884-1938), sometimes referred to as Bartholomew Stanley Wilson, was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest, bishop, and member of the Spiritan order he served as Vicar Apostolic of Bagamoyo in East Africa, and also of Sierra Leone, British West Africa.

References

  1. Bishop John Gerald Neville Catholic Hierarchy
  2. Bishop consecrated at Blackrock College Century Ireland Archives, www.rte.ie, October 28, 1913.
  3. Bishop John Neville, C.S.Sp. Medical Dispensary Congregation of the Holy Spirit Province of the United States, www.spiritans.org, September 10, 2015.