Patrick Henry Cronin, (30 November 1913 – 9 February 1991) was an Irish,

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, Columban

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and

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. He was the second Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro in the

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, serving during

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Background

Born Patrick Henry Cronin on 30 November 1913 in

Moneygall Moneygall () is a village in County Offaly, bordering County Tipperary, in Ireland. It is situated on the R445 road between Dublin and Limerick. There were 374 people living in the village as of the 2022 census. Moneygall has a Catholic church ...

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. He was ordained priest on 21 December 1937. Cronin attended the Tullamore Christian Brothers School and

St. Finian's College St Finian's College is a secondary school, the diocesan school of the Diocese of Meath. It is located in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, and is under the patronage of The Most Reverend Thomas Deenihan, Bishop of Meath. Rev. Dr. Paul Connel ...

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, Ireland. In 1931, he entered the Dalgan Park the Columban Fathers' Seminary. Six years later, he was ordained as priest under the

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Ministry

On 24 May 1955 Cronin was appointed as Prelate of Ozamis in the

. Concurrently, he was the

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of Ubaza. Upon the retirement Archbishop James Hayes on 13 October 1970, he was appointed as

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Cagayan de Oro Cagayan de Oro (abbreviated CDO and officially the City of Cagayan de Oro; ; Bukid language, Binukid: ''Ciudad ta Cagayan de Oro''; ; ) is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Regions of the Philippi ...

in 1971. As Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, he established the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in

, an interdiocesan theological seminary that provides formation for candidates for priesthood. After retiring on 5 January 1988 he was succeeded by Jesus Tuquib and given the title Archbishop Emeritus. He then lived at the archdiocesan seminary until his death on 9 February 1991 in Maria Reyna Hospital (now Maria Reyna Xavier University Hospital) in

, Philippines. His remains had been interred at the Saint Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cronin, Patrick Participants in the Second Vatican Council 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines Roman Catholic archbishops of Cagayan de Oro 1913 births 1991 deaths Irish expatriate Roman Catholic archbishops People educated at St Finian's College Missionary Society of St. Columban

Background

Ministry

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