Donal McKeown
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The Most Reverend Dr Dónal McKeown |
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| Bishop of Derry | |
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| Church | Catholic |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Diocese of Derry |
| In office | 25 February 2014–present |
| Predecessor | Séamus Hegarty |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 3 July 1977 |
| Consecration | 29 April 2001 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 April 1950 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Down & Connor |
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Dónal McKeown is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop of Derry in Ireland. He previously served as Titular Bishop of Cell Ausaille and auxiliary bishop in The Diocese of Down and Connor.
He was born on 12 April 1950 in Belfast and baptised in St. Patrick's Church in Donegall Street, though his childhood was spent in Randalstown, County Antrim.
He was educated at Mount St Michael's Primary School and St MacNissi's College, Garron Tower where he was a boarder from 1961–1968. He completed his O-Levels and A-Levels with special distinction in Modern Languages. Two of his teachers were his future brother bishops, Fr Anthony Farquhar (who taught Latin) and Fr Patrick Walsh (who taught Mathematics).
He entered the Diocesan Seminary, Saint Malachy's College, in 1968, and studied at Queen's University, Belfast, where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree with Honours in German and Italian in 1973. From 1970 to 1971 he taught English at a school in Dieburg Germany. From 1971–73 he was Northern Ireland correspondent for the German Katholische Nachrichten Agentur (KNA). Then from 1973 to 1978 he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, obtaining the degree of Licentiate in Sacred Theology. During the five years in Rome he did occasional work as a newscaster for the Vatican Radio and as correspondent for An Saol Mor, an Irish language programme on RTÉ, the Irish national radio station.
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