Daniel Joseph Feeney

Feeney was ordained to the priesthood in Montreal by Archbishop Georges Gauthier for the Diocese of Portland on May 21, 1921.

[1] He then served as assistant pastor at St. Mary's Parish in Orono, Maine from 1921 to 1926, and as superintendent of diocesan schools from 1926 to 1929.

Feeney, who was Portland's first native bishop, received his episcopal consecration on September 12,1946, his fifty-second birthday, from Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, with Bishops Matthew Brady and Joseph McCarthy serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.

During his tenure, Feeney opened a number of rectories, convents, schools, social centers, parish halls, and the diocesan chancery.

Daniel Feeney died on September 15, 1969, at age 75, having spent his last several months at Mercy Hospital in Portland.