Bishop Neale MacCabe CM (23 June 1816 – 22 July 1870), was an Irish Vincentian priest who served as

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Early life, family and education

MacCabe was from Crosdrum near Oldcastle,

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. He was educated in the Vincentian

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, in Dublin and trained for the priesthood at the

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Career

MacCabe served in St. Vincents, Sundays Well,

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from 1865 to 1866. In 1866, Dr. McCabe was appointed Rector of the Irish College in Paris. In 1867, he was ordained a bishop for Ardagh and Clonmacnois.

Death

Bishop MacCabe died in office on 22 July 1870, after he took ill at

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on the way to

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, going to the

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. His funeral was in the Vincentian Chapel on Rue de Sèvres, Paris and his interment was in a vault of the Head House of Vincentians, in Montparnasse, Paris.Neal McCabe
COLLOQUE Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission, No. 59, Spring 2010, p.298.

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1870 deaths 1816 births People educated at Castleknock College Irish Vincentians Roman Catholic bishops of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Christian clergy from County Meath Alumni of the Irish College in Paris {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub