Cornelius Lucey

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Bishop Cornelius (Con) Lucey(1902 -1982) was a Catholic Bishop of Cork and Ross.

[edit] Overview

Cornelius Lucey was born into a farming family at Ballincollig, near Cork City in 1902. He studied at St. Finbarr's College, the diocesan college, at Maynooth College and Seminary (BC and BCL), and at Innsbruck University from 1927 - 1929 (MA) with further studies at University College Dublin (MA).

[edit] Career

Cornelius Lucey was ordained in 1927. Appointed to the Chair of Philosophy and Political Theory at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, in 1929, he served until 1950. He was a major commentator on social issues and was one of the founders of Christus Rex - a priest's society devoted to social issues. He later founded the St. Anne's Adoption Sociey in 1954. He was appointed Bishop of Cork 1951 and served until 1982, from 1958 as Bishop of the newly united diocese of Cork and Ross. His outspoken sermons, often given at confirmations, made him somewhat of a thorn in the side of the establishment. His views on matters of faith and morals were conservative, and he was involved in a controversy in the 1960s, when he withdrew the diocesan faculties of Father James Good, a lecturer at University College, Cork, for publicly dissenting from the teaching of Pope Paul VI.

He started the outreach program of the Cork Dioceses to Peru and many priests from Cork ministered there from 1961 on.