(23 February 1944 – 20 August 2022) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Ossory who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 14 September 2007.
In December 2005 he was elected President of the General Coordination Council of the Union of Catholic Apostolate.
On hearing the news of the appointment of Freeman, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin remarked: "He is an exceptionally warm and kind man who I'm sure will quickly win the affection of the diocese.
The Principal Consecrator was the Metropolitan Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, while the principal Co-Consecrators were Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Apostolic Nuncio and Bishop Laurence Forristal the Bishop Emeritus of Ossory.
[3] In December 2010, Bishop Freeman wrote in the Irish Times of the Pastoral Letter of Pope Benedict XVI to the Catholics of Ireland, "There was widespread disappointment among the faithful that in the pope’s letter last March, sex abuse was not seen as a symptom of shortcomings in church structure."