# Neal McCabe

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Irish Vincentian priest (1816–1870)

**Bishop Neale[a] MacCabe** CM (23 June 1816[1] – 22 July 1870), was an [Irish](/source/Irish_people) [Vincentian priest](/source/Congregation_of_the_Mission) who served as [Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise](/source/Bishop_of_Ardagh_and_Clonmacnoise).

## Early life, family and education

MacCabe was from Crosdrum near [Oldcastle](/source/Oldcastle%2C_County_Meath), [County Meath](/source/County_Meath). He was educated in the Vincentian [Castleknock College](/source/Castleknock_College), in Dublin[2] and trained for the priesthood at the [Irish College in Paris](/source/Irish_College_in_Paris).[3]

## Career

MacCabe served in St. Vincents, [Sundays Well](/source/Sundays_Well), [Cork](/source/Cork_(city)) from 1865 to 1866.[4] In 1866, Dr. McCabe was appointed Rector of the Irish College in Paris. In 1867, he was ordained a bishop for Ardagh and Clonmacnois.[1]

## Death

Bishop MacCabe died in office on 22 July 1870, after he took ill at [Marseille](/source/Marseille) on the way to [Civitavecchia](/source/Civitavecchia), going to the [First Vatican Council](/source/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.[5]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** His first name has sometimes been spelt Nial.

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CH_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CH_2-1) ["Bishop Neal McCabe"](https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmcabe.html). *catholic-hierarchy.org*. Catholic Hierarchy.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Canning, Bernard (1988). *Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987*. [Ballyshannon](/source/Ballyshannon): [Donegal Democrat](/source/Donegal_Democrat). p. 67. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1870963008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1870963008).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Canning_4-0)** Canning, Bernard (1988). *Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987*. [Ballyshannon](/source/Ballyshannon): [Donegal Democrat](/source/Donegal_Democrat). p. 67. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1870963008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1870963008).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** O'Callaghan, Antoin (2016). *The Churches of Cork City: An Illustrated History*. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1845888930](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1845888930).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Neal McCabe](http://diskon.ie/assets/Colloque%20Volume%2059.pdf) COLLOQUE Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission, No. 59, Spring 2010, p.298.

Catholic Church titles Preceded by John Kilduff Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise 1868–1870 Succeeded by Rev. Dr. George Michael Conroy

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