Honorific-Prefix: | His Most Reverend, Dr. |
John Anthony Kyne | |
Bishop of Meath | |
Diocese: | Meath |
Archdiocese: | Armagh |
Predecessor: | John D'Alton |
Successor: | John McCormack |
Ordination: | 31 July 1927 |
Consecration: | 29 June 1947 |
Consecrated By: | Raffael Cardinal Rossi |
Birth Date: | 4 November 1904 |
Buried: | Cathedral grounds, Mullingar |
Nationality: | Irish |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
John Anthony Kyne | |
Dipstyle: | The Most Reverend |
Offstyle: | Your Grace |
Relstyle: | Bishop |
John Anthony "Jack" Kyne (4 November 1904 - 23 December 1966)[1] was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath, Ireland from 1947 to his death in 1966.[2]
Kyne was born in Longwood, County Meath on the 4 November 1904. He won a scholarship to St Finian's College in Mullingar and later became a member of staff there. Kyne studied for the priesthood at the Irish College in Rome[3] and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Meath on 31 July 1927.From 1930, including during World War II, he served as a vice-rector of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. In 1939 Pope Pius XII named him a Monsignor and further appointed him as Papal Chamberlain in 1940.
Following his predecessors elevation to Archdiocese of Armagh in 1946, he was appointed Bishop of Meath on 29 June 1947,[1] a position he held until his sudden death in Mullingar on 23 December 1966.