Bishop Fintan Gavin has announced that the death has occurred of Archbishop Patrick Coveney. Since his retirement as Apostolic Nuncio to Greece in 2009, Archbishop Coveney resided in Crosshaven Parish in the Diocese of Cork and Ross.
Archbishop Coveney was born in 1934 and is a native of Tracton Abbey Parish. In 1959, in Rome, he was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Cork and Ross. His first pastoral appointment was in Kidlington, Archdiocese of Bermingham, for one year before joining the staff of Saint Finbarr’s Seminary, Farranferris, Cork, from 1960 – 1966.
