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Bishop Niall Coll at his announcement as Bishop of Raphoe. Photos: Joe Boland (North West Newspix)
Bishop Niall Coll will be officially installed as the new Bishop of Raphoe in January.
Earlier this month, the St Johnston native was appointed by Pope Leo XIV to lead the See of Raphoe, vacant since the transfer of Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ to the Diocese of Down and Connor last year.
The announcement of the appointment of Bishop Coll - who is currently the Bishop of Ossory - was made simultaneously at St Eunan’s Cathedral in Letterkenny and in the Vatican.
Following the completion of his duties in Ossory, Bishop Coll will become the new Bishop of Raphoe on January 25 at a Mass of Installation in St Eunan’s Cathedral.
In 2022, Fr Niall Coll - who was then the parish priest in Drumholm in Donegal - learned of his elevation to Bishophood and he was ordained a Bishop by the Archbishop Dermot Farrell in Kilkenny on January 22, 2023.
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He was previously ordained to the priesthood in July 1988 by the then Bishop of Raphoe, Seamus Hegarty, and has spent time in Rome, Belfast, Carlow, Dungloe, Letterkenny and south Donegal.
“To be called back to the place and people who first formed my faith is both humbling and deeply moving,” Bishop Coll said recently of his appointment as Bishop of Raphoe.
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