John Rooney (bishop)
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John Rooney (bishop)
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Bishop John Rooney VG, was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest who served as bishop in South Africa. Rooney was born in 1844 in Edenderry, County Offaly, he attended Carlow College before going to All Hallows College in Dublin, to be trained as priest for the Cape of Good Hope Diocese. Following All Hallows, he studied at Propaganda College in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1867.
He was in 1886 ordained titular Bishop of Sergiopolis, and coadjutor to Bishop John Leonard, whom he succeeded in
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Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop in South Africa
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