Mission of Archbishop Charles Heerey
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES
When he returned to Nigeria after his consecration, Bishop Heerey brought with him the first group of Holy Rosary Sisters – led by Mother Dominic – and they opened a new girls’ school at Onitsha called Immaculata School. That was in 1927....
His Mission
Archbishop Heerey CSSp was born on the 29th November 1890 in the village of Clonkeefy, County Cavan, in the diocese of Kilmore in Ireland. Born into a fervent Irish Catholic family, his parents, Patrick and Rose Anne Heerey baptized their little baby boy, Charles, a day after his birth, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Castlerahan. It was in this parish Church that the boy Charles received his first Holy Communion and joined his colleagues to serve mass as altar server, while he was growing up......