NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1144, 3 June 1911, Page 9

NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.

DR. J. J. A. KEILY. The Ri S ht Rev. J. J. A. Kcily, D.D., has been nominated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth in succession to Bishop Graham, who has resigned. Though an Irishman by birth, having been born at Limerick in 1854, ho is by long residence in Plymouth town and diocese a Plymouth man. His early studios were made under tho Christian Brothers in Limerick and at Clarke's Collegiate School, Plymouth, which ho entered in 186". Thence ho proceeded to tho Petit Seminairo at Roulers, and afterwards to the Grand Seminairo at Bruges, whore ho received minor orders and the diaconate. After his ordination to the priesthood in March, 1877, ho worked as assistant priest at Exeter and Bridport. In ISB2 he joined the Cathedral staff at Plymouth, and threo years laser was appointed to tho chargo of the Tothill Mission, where ho enlarged the church and built admirable now schools, and where his knowledge, of languages helped effectively in keeping together a congregation unusually cosmopolitan in its character. To these activities in his parish he added for some years the duties of a Guardian of the Poor on tho Plymouth Board and those of Diocesan Inspector cf Schools.

"The Western Morning News" pays the following generous tribute to tho Bishop-elect:—"The new Bishop of Plymouth is not only an ecclesiastic of large experience and sound judgment, but he is a man of high intellectual attainment, rich culture, and broad sympathies. Amid his multifarious parochial and diocesan duties ho has found time for systematic study, and has kept himself fully abreast of the intellectual and religious movements of the times. In his intervals of leisure he has travelled extensively on tho Continent, and his knowledge of France, Italy, and Germany is almost as extensive as that of his own country. By his admirable disposition and personal qualities lie has won for himself a largo increase of popularity throughout the diocese, while by the congregation nt Holy Cross he has long been idolised as the ideal parish priest."