John Fogarty (priest)

John Fogarty, C.S.Sp. (born 9 April 1952), is an Irish Catholic priest, currently the 24th Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, commonly known as the Holy Ghost Fathers or Spiritans.

Biography

Fogarty was born 9 April 1952, in Finglas in County Dublin, and educated at St. Vincent's C.B.S., Glasnevin.^[1]

Fogarty obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1976 at the National University of Ireland. After graduation, he entered the Holy Ghost Fathers and professed his final religious vows on 2 October 1979. He was ordained a priest on 27 September 1981.^[1]

After his ordination, Fogarty at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1982.^[1] Following this, he served in a parish of the Diocese of Kumasi in Ghana until 1986.^[1] For three years after that first assignment, he was on the Provincial Council in Dublin. He served as Rector of the Spiritan Institute of Philosophy in Ejisu, Ghana from 1990 to 1994. In 1994, Fogarty returned to Ireland, serving as Assistant Provincial Superior until 1998, whereupon he served as First Assistant to the Superior General in Rome until 2004. In 2005, he was appointed Director of the Spiritan Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

In June 2009, Fogarty was elected provincial of the American Province of the congregation. He had been re-elected for a second term shortly before his election as Superior General at the General Chapter of the congregation assembled at Bagamoyo, Tanzania.^[1]

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