{{Short description|Irish Jesuit priest and Bishop of Monze, Zambia (1916–2004)}} '''James Corboy''', S.J., was an Irish Jesuit priest who served as Bishop of Monze, Zambia. He also served as Rector of the Jesuit Theology School at Milltown Park.
== Biography == Born on 20 October 1916 in Caherconlish, County Limerick, James was educated at the Jesuit schools of Crescent, Limerick and Clongowes Wood College.<ref name="it">{{cite news |title=Contributor to the development of church and state in emerging Zambia |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/contributor-to-the-development-of-church-and-state-in-emerging-zambia-1.408639 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=January 22, 2005 |language=en}}</ref> He joined the Jesuits in Emo Court. He trained as a Jesuit at St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, and Rathfarnham Castle, while studying Arts in University College Dublin before teaching for a time in Belvedere College. Following his Theology Studies in Milltown he was ordained in 1948. He completed further studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, receiving a doctorate in theology.
Returning to Milltown where he lectured in theology, Corboy served as Rector of Milltown from 1959 until 1962 when he was appointed Bishop of Monze, Zambia,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bishop James Corboy |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcorboy.html |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=August 17, 2022}}</ref> then called North Rhodesia, a British Colony until 1964.<ref name="it"/> Corboy was shaped by the Second Vatican Council, which started the same year as his bishopric, through which he believed evangelization include the whole person, not just souls.<ref name="it"/>
Corboy was given the Tonga name of ''Cibinda'', meaning "a wholesome person who knows where he is going and where he is leading others."<ref name="archives"/>
Following his retirement as Bishop in 1992, he worked for four years at St. Ignatius in Lusaka before returning to Ireland, where he stayed with the Jesuit Community in Milltown, where he worked as the Librarian. After living for a time in Cherryfield Nursing home, Corboy died on 24 November 2004 at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin.<ref name="archives">{{cite web |title=Corboy, James, 1916-2004, Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Monze - Irish Jesuit Archives |url=https://www.jesuitarchives.ie/corboy-james-1916-2004-jesuit-priest-and-roman-catholic-bishop-of-monze |website=Jesuit Archives |access-date=August 17, 2022}}</ref>
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last1=Dunn |first1=Catherine |title=The man called James Corboy: Irish Jesuit Bishop of Monze, Zambia |date=2012 |publisher=Messenger Publications |location=Dublin |oclc=891144803 |language=English}}
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