Hugh Connolly (priest)
Irish priest
Hugh Gerard Connolly (born 1961) is an Irish Catholic priest. He is a parish priest in the troubled Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore and a former Aumônier des Irlandais at the Collège des Irlandais in Paris. He previously served as president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland.
Early life
Born in September 1961, Connolly is a native of Burren near Warrenpoint, County Down, and is a priest of the Diocese of Dromore. He has one sister Rosemary and grew up in a farming community.
Ministry
Connolly attended the Abbey Grammar in Newry before commencing his studies for the priesthood in Maynooth, gaining a BA Honours (NUI) degree in French before studying a theology degree at Maynooth. He was ordained in Maynooth in May 1987. He completed postgraduate doctoral studies in moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, in 1991.
Connolly worked as a lecturer in moral theology in Maynooth, becoming a professor in 2007. He has also lectured at St.
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