Richard Finn SMA (1912-1989), was an Irish-born priest and a member of the Society of African Missions who served as Bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ibadan in Nigeria.
[citation needed] He joined the Society of African Missions (SMA Fathers), first at St. Joseph's College in Wilton, Cork, attending lectures in University College Cork, before entering the Society's novitiate and house of philosophy, at Kilcolgan, County Galway in 1936.
[2] Finn was made Prefect Apostolic of Ibadan in 1953, a church unit which was created from the Archdiocese of Lagos.
[4] During the Nigerian Civil War, like many other Irish religious figures serving in Nigeria at the time, Finn expressed a pro-federalist view.
He died on 4 January 1989 in hospital in Galway, following a short illness, and is buried in the SMA Cemetery in Wilton, Cork.