Patrick Walsh (Bishop of Down and Connor)
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The Most Reverend Dr Patrick Walsh |
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| Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor | |
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| Church | Catholic |
| See | Diocese of Down and Connor |
| In office | 1991–2008 |
| Predecessor | Cahal Daly |
| Successor | Noel Treanor |
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| Ordination | 25 February 1956 |
| Consecration | 15 May 1983 |
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9 April 1931 Cobh, Irish Free State |
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Styles of Patrick Walsh |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | My Lord |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | none |
Patrick Joseph Walsh (born 9 April 1931), is an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and from 1991 until 2008 he was the 31st Bishop of Down & Connor. Dr Walsh was born in 1931 at Cobh, Irish Free State. When he was 11 years old, his RIC father moved the family to Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He attended St Marys CBGS Belfast and won university scholarships in both Science and Literature. He entered St. Malachy's College as a seminarian and then attended Queen's University, Belfast. During Philosophy studies at Queen's he was taught by the future Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Cahal Daly. He then studied Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome and completed a Licentiate in Sacred Theology and was ordained priest on 25 February 1956. After ordination Bishop Daniel Mageean sent him for further studies to St Edmund's College, Cambridge (then known as St Edmund's House). He completed a M.Sc. in Mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge since St Edmund's was at the time unable to matriculate students of its own. He subsequently achieved another M.Sc. from Queen's University, Belfast.
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