Bishop of Raphoe -- this bishopric in Ireland had been vacant since February 2024

Current POPE

Leo XIV

appointed his first Irish

Bishop where there had

been an Episcopal opening

since Feb. 2024.  The pontiff

who himself was elected in May

2025 announced

Niall Coll of Ossory.

[ details at BBC.com/news/articles ]

Bishop Coll is 62 and was

from the Raphoe Diocese.