Diocesan Appointments 2025

DIOCESAN APPOINTMENTS 2025

Bishop Martin Hayes has announced the following diocesan appointments for the Diocese of Kilmore:

Effective from 13 September 2025:

  • Very Rev. Fr Gerard Comiskey, P.P. recently returned from Sabbatical to be P.P. Killinagh-Glangevlin.
  • Very Rev. Fr Thomas McManus P.P. Drumkeeran to retire as P.P. and to remain available for pastoral ministry in the Manorhamilton Deanery.
  • Very Rev. Fr Paul Casey P.P. Dromahair also to be Administrator of Drumkeeran.

Appointments to take effect later in 2025: 

  • Very Rev. Fr Martin Gilcreest P.P. Laragh also to be Administrator of Lavey.
  • Very Rev. Fr Peter Okpetu MSP P.P. to full-time Hospital Chaplaincy Studies.
  • Rev. Fr Bijo Chacko C.C. Annagh and Urney & Annagelliff to be C.C Lavey.
  • Rev. Fr Finbarr Felix MSP to be C.C Annagh and Drumlane Parishes.

In announcing this year’s appointments, Bishop Hayes said

Our 2025 clergy appointments take account of the reduced number of available priests in Kilmore Diocese. We give thanks for the faithful ministry of all our priests including those from abroad who are ministering with us. We continue to pray for vocations to diocesan priesthood; a vocation that is essential to the life of our faith communities.

Thankfully, we have a strong tradition of lay involvement and of pastoral planning which has enabled the initiation of a Lay Pastoral Ministry Programme in conjunction with the Centre for Mission & Ministries at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, beginning this September.

Therefore, guided by the Holy Spirit, we look forward in this Jubilee Year of Hope to a collaborative ministry of people and priests in the spirit of walking together and sharing the responsibility of doing our best to nurture our Christian faith.