Patrick McKenna

Patrick McKenna (9 August 1868 – 7 February 1942) was a Catholic Bishop of Clogher in Ireland. Early life and priestly ministry Born at Moybridge in the parish of Errigal Truagh, County Monaghan, he studied at St Macartan's College, Monaghan and Maynooth College. He was a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Clogher, Ireland, ordained in 1894. Following post-graduate studies at Maynooth he returned to the Diocese to serve as curate in the parish of Currin. He taught for a time in St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, following which he returned to Clogher Diocese to become curate in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. He was appointed Professor of Moral Theology & Canon Law in St Patrick's College, Maynooth, in 1904. He was appointed the Catholic Bishop of Clogher on 1 June 1909, following the death of his predecessor, Richard Owens (bishop). McKenna was ordained bishop on 10 October 1909.