Ireland's Residential Cardinals (Part IX)

Cahal Cardinal Daly

Birth

October 1, 1917, Loughguile, Ireland.

Education

St. Patrick's National School, Loughguile; St. Malachy's College, Belfast; Queen's University, Belfast; National Seminary, Maynooth; Catholic Institute, Paris.

Pre-Episcopal Career

Ordained, June 22, 1941. Fron 1941-1967, further studies; Classics master in St Malachy's College, Belfast, 1945-1946; lecturer in Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1946; reader in Scholastic Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast, 1963 to 1967; Attended the Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965, as assistant to William Philbin, bishop of Down and Connor and to Cardinal William Conway, archbishop of Armagh.

Episcopal Career

Elected bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, May 26, 1967. Consecrated, July 16, 1967, by Cardinal William Conway, archbishop of Armagh, assisted by Giuseppe Maria Sensi, titular archbishop of Sardes, nuncio in Portugal, and by Neil Farren, bishop of Derry. Attended the IV Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, September 30 to October 29, 1977. Transferred to see of Down and Connor, August 24, 1982. Attended the VII Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, October 1 to 30, 1987; VIII Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, September 30 to October 28, 1990. Promoted to metropolitan and primatial see of Armagh, November 6, 1990.

Cardinalate

Created cardinal priest in the consistory of June 28, 1991; received the red biretta and the title of S. Patrizio, June 28, 1991. Attended the Special Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops for Europe, Vatican City, November 28 to December 14, 1991; IX Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, October 2 to 29, 1994. Resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese, October 1, 1996. Lost the right to participate in the conclave when turned 80 years of age, October 1, 1997.