Pope Francis appoints Bishop Dermot Farrell as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin, in Ireland.
By the writer of the Vatican News staff
Pope Francis on Tuesday resigned Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Metropolitan of Dublin, Ireland.
At the same time, the Pope appointed Bishop Dermot Pius Farrell as the new metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin.
He has been Bishop of Ossory since early 2018.
Short biography
Dermot Farrell was born in 1954, in Garthy, Castletown-Geoghegan, Co Westweath, in the Diocese of Meath.
He began his studies for the priesthood in September 1972 at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and received a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy in 1976. He received a Bachelor of Divinity Degree in 1979 and a License in Theology in 1981, both from Pontifical University . , Maynooth.
He was ordained a priest in Castletown-Geoghegan for the Diocese of Meath on June 7, 1980.
He served as a chaplain in the Cathedral Parish of Christ the King, Mullingar, before being sent to Rome in 1985 to pursue doctoral studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1988 he received a doctorate in theology.
Returning to Ireland, Farrell was appointed chaplain in the Tullamore Parish in 1989-1990. He also taught moral theology at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and was appointed vice president (1993-1996) and president (1996-2007) of the college.
On June 6, 1997, he was made an honorary Prelate of His Holiness.
Bishop Farrell was appointed Bishop of Ossory on January 3, 2018, and ordained a bishop on March 11, 2018.
He was elected Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Irish Conference of Bishops in March 2019.
Bishop Farrell’s Episcopal Motto “Our help is in the name of the Lord,Comes from Psalm 124.