Patrick Whitney
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1894
Death:
1942
Education:
Maynooth University
The details
Biography
Monsignor Patrick Joseph Whitney (1894 - 1942), was an Irish priest who in 1932 founded the Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missionsknown as the Kiltegan Fathers. He was training as a priest in Maynooth College for theDiocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise when on the invitation of Bishop, Joseph Shanahan, he volunteered as a priest in Nigeria where he went with Fr Roynane in the 1920s. His cousin Fr Patrick Francis Whitney was one of the first three members of the society.