Joseph Neil MacNeil (April 15, 1924 – February 11, 2018) was a Canadian
prelate
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of the
Catholic Church
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.
MacNeil was born in
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and disso ...
, and was ordained a priest on May 23, 1948.
MacNeil was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick, on April 9, 1969, and consecrated on June 24, 1969. MacNeil was appointed bishop of the
Archdiocese of Edmonton on July 2, 1973 until his resignation on June 7, 1999. He died after a stroke on February 11, 2018, at the age of 93.
See also
*
Robert Jacobson
References
External links
Catholic-HierarchyEdmonton ArchdioceseSt John (NB) Diocese
1924 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Canada
People from Sydney, Nova Scotia
Roman Catholic bishops of Saint John, New Brunswick
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