Neal McCabe

{{Short description|Irish Vincentian priest (1816–1870)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Bishop Neale{{efn| His first name has sometimes been spelt Nial.}} MacCabe''' CM (23 June 1816<ref name= CH /> – 22 July 1870), was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Congregation of the Mission|Vincentian priest]] who served as [[Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]].

==Early life, family and education== MacCabe was from Crosdrum near [[Oldcastle, County Meath|Oldcastle]], [[County Meath]]. He was educated in the Vincentian [[Castleknock College]], in Dublin<ref>{{cite book | last=Canning | first= Bernard| author-link= | title= Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987| location= [[Ballyshannon]] | publisher= [[Donegal Democrat]]| pages=67| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref> and trained for the priesthood at the [[Irish College in Paris]].<ref name=Canning>{{cite book | last=Canning | first= Bernard| author-link= | title= Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987| location= [[Ballyshannon]] | publisher= [[Donegal Democrat]]| pages=67| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref>

==Career== MacCabe served in St. Vincents, [[Sundays Well]], [[Cork (city)|Cork]] from 1865 to 1866.<ref>{{cite book| title= The Churches of Cork City: An Illustrated History| first= Antoin |last= O'Callaghan| year= 2016| isbn= 978-1845888930| publisher= | page= }}</ref> In 1866, Dr. McCabe was appointed Rector of the Irish College in Paris. In 1867, he was ordained a bishop for Ardagh and Clonmacnois.<ref name= CH>{{cite web| url= https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmcabe.html |title= Bishop Neal McCabe| publisher= Catholic Hierarchy| website= catholic-hierarchy.org| date= | access-date= }}</ref>

==Death== Bishop MacCabe died in office on 22 July 1870, after he took ill at [[Marseille]] on the way to [[Civitavecchia]], going to the [[First Vatican Council]]. 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.<ref>[http://diskon.ie/assets/Colloque%20Volume%2059.pdf Neal McCabe] COLLOQUE Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission, No. 59, Spring 2010, p.298.</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | before = [[John Kilduff]] | title = [[Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]] | years = 1868–1870 | after = Rev. Dr. [[George Michael Conroy]] }} {{s-end}}

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