Education
He was educated locally and at Ring College, Rockwell College and Knockbeg College.
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Patrick Lennon
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Career
Very Review Patrick Lennon Doctor of Divinity was an Irish priest who served as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Patrick went to Maynooth College in 1931 to study for the priesthood and was ordained there on 19 June 1938, pursuing postgraduate studies he obtained a doctorate in divinity with a thesis on the Eucharist. In 1940 he went to Carlow College where he was appointed Professor of Moral Theology, he was to stay at Carlow for the next 26 years, becoming Vice-President in 1949 and subsequently President of Saint Patrick"s Carlow, College from 1956 until 1966.
He was appointed auxiliary Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (Titular Bishop of Vina) and parish priest of Mountmellick, Company
Laois in July 1966, and in September 1967 Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. He retired on 10 December 1987.
He was Patron of the Old Carlow Society. He died in a car accident in Kill, County Kildare, on 12 January 1990.
