Bishop Joseph A. Carroll LSS, STL, was a Roman Catholic Irish priest, educator and auxiliary bishop of Dublin.
Joseph Carroll was born on 12 December 1912 in Dublin. He was ordained a priest in 1938 for the Dublin Archdiocese. [1]
He served as a vicar-general of Dublin and president of Clonliffe College, the seminary of the Archdiocese of Dublin, until his appointment as bishop, in 1968, by John Charles McQuaid. [2] He was ordained as Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana.
Bishop Carroll also served as the Dublin archdiocese's administrator.
As President of Clonliffe College in 1966, he was involved in the setting up of the Mater Dei Institute of Education, where he also served as president.
The Murphy report was critical of Bishop Carroll's handling of Child Sex Abuse allegations in the Dublin Diocese [3]
Bishop Caroll retired in 1989 and died on 29 February 1992 [1]
Mater Dei Institute of Education was a linked college of Dublin City University from 1999 until its closure in 2016, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland, near Croke Park, on the site of what was formerly Clonliffe College, the Roman Catholic Seminary for the Archdiocese of Dublin. The college was founded by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid in 1966 as an institute for the training and formation for teachers of religion in secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland. Clonliffe was also affiliated to the Angelicum in Rome that offered a three-year course leading to a diploma and a four-year course leading to a Masters; Fr. Joseph Carroll was its first president. Other Presidents of the College included Msgr. Michael Nolan, Dr. Dermot Lane and Sr. Eileen Randles IBVN(1986-1995). The foundation of the college was a response to the challenges posed by the Second Vatican Council. It had a Roman Catholic ethos and had approximately 800 students.
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