Articles by Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan

Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan is the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. He studied at Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth from 1989-1995 where he completed an STL (Licentiate in Theology). He was ordained by Bishop Jeremiah Newman in 1994 in Saint John’s Cathedral, Limerick, and appointed Curate in Saint Munchin’s Parish Limerick city 1995-1996. He was chaplain to the Regional Hospital in Limerick from 1996 until 2001, and then studied for his doctorate in moral theology in the Alfonsianum in Rome 2001-2004 before being appointed chaplain to the Limerick Institute of Technology 2004-2011. He was appointed Parish Priest of Rathkeale, County Limerick in 2011; he was ordained a bishop on April 12, 2015.