(21 August 1889 – 3 March 1961) was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as a missionary in Liberia for 47 years.
John Collins was born on 21 August 1889 in Leap, County Cork, Ireland, the eighth of ten children.
He studied in Irish seminaries and took his final vows as a member of the Society of African Missions on 31 October 1911.
He was ordained a priest of the Society of African Missions on 15 June 1913 and began working in Liberia later that year.
[1] On 9 April 1934, the day the Prefecture became a Vicariate, Pope Pius appointed Collins titular bishop of Thala and Vicar Apostolic of Liberia.