John McCormack (bishop)

John McCormack (25 March 1921 – 21 September 1996)[1] was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath, Ireland from 1968 to 1990.

[2] He was ordained a priest of the Cathedral Parish of Mullingar, in County Westmeath on 23 June 1946.

He went to Rome to Study in the Lateran University shortly afterwards and was awarded a degree in canon law.

[1][3] Following the death of John Anthony Kyne in 1968, Pope Paul VI named him as the Bishop of Meath.

On 10 March 1968 he was consecrated as a bishop in the Cathedral of Christ the King, in Mullingar County Westmeath by William Cardinal Conway.