Patrick Lennon (22 June 1914 – 12 January 1990) was an Irish priest who served as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Patrick Lennon was born in 1914 at

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. Both his parents were primary school teachers. He was educated locally and at Ring College,

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and

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. He attended

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earning a BSc in physics and mathematics (1934), and was ordained a priest there on 19 June 1938, pursuing postgraduate studies he obtained a doctorate in divinity with a thesis on the Eucharist. His brother Fr. Thomas Lennon SMA, also went on to become a priest, serving in Africa and Ireland. In 1940 he went to Carlow College where he was appointed Professor of Moral Theology, he was to stay at Carlow for the next 26 years, becoming Vice-President in 1949 and subsequently President of St. Patrick's Carlow, College from 1956 until 1966. He was appointed auxiliary Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (Titular Bishop of Vina) and parish priest of

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, Co. Laois in July 1966, and in September 1967

Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, one of the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Dublin. The episcopal title takes its name from the towns of Kildare and Old Leighlin i ...

. He retired on 10 December 1987. He was Patron of the Old Carlow Society.Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society
/ref> He died in a car accident in

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, on 12 January 1990.Obituary Bishop Patrick Lennon
Carlovian (Journal of the Old Carlow Society) 1990/1991 No. 38

References

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