Paul Mooney (priest)

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Paul Gerard Mooney is, as of 2017, the dean of Ferns. [1]

Mooney was born in 1958 and studied at St Columban's College (Dalgan Park), Navan and St Patrick's College, Maynooth to become a Roman Catholic priest, remaining one until 1990. He was Chaplain to the Mission to Seamen in Korea from then until 1994; and then at Antwerp to 1997. He was Curate at Galway from 1997 to 1998 and then the incumbent at New Ross where he was also Archdeacon of Ferns. In 2007 he became Chaplain at Seoul Anglican Cathedral, [2] a post he held until his appointment as Dean of Ferns. [3] Mooney was awarded a B.D. degree (hons) from the Pontifical University at Maynooth in 1984, a Master of Theology in Missiology degree from the Asian Center for Theological Studies and Mission, Seoul, Korea in 1992 and a Doctor of Theology in Practical and Pastoral Theology from the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Brussels, Belgium in 2002. [4] He is author of the book Maritime Mission published by the Boekencentrum Publishers in the Netherlands in 2005 [5] and of the book A History of ICMA (International Christian Maritime Association) published in London in 2019. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Installations of new Canons in Ferns and Ossory – Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory". cashel.anglican.org. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/9 p564: London, Church House, 2008 ISBN   978-0-7151-1029-4
  3. ↑ "Reverend Mooney is new Dean of Ferns". Gorey Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  4. ↑ Church of Ireland Directory 2015, p. 76: Dublin
  5. ↑ O'Rourke, Brian, Review of Maritime Mission - History, Developments, A New Perspective by Paul G. Mooney, Search, A Church of Ireland Journal, vol. 29, number 2, 2006, pp. 184–185
  6. ↑ Empey, Adrian, Review of A History of ICMA by Paul G. Mooney, Cashel Ferns Leighlin Lismore Ossory Waterford Diocesan Magazine, vol. 97, number 3, March 2020, pp. 14–15


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