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About William Mahony (bishop)
- William Mahony, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ilorin, 29 April 1919 - 15 November 1994.
- The son of Mick and Mary Mahony of Derrybrien, Slieve Aughty, Mahony had two sisters and three brothers.
- His father, grandfather and two of his brothers were blacksmiths, a motif he incorporated into his coat of arms as a bishop. Mahony was at the Gort sheep fair when he heard the call of God to become a priest, joining the Society of African Missions in 1936.
- He studied in Ballinafad, Cork, Galway, Newry and London.
- In 1948 he was assigned to what would become the Archdiocese of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, teaching there till 1960.
- In the latter year, he was appointed Prefect Apostolic of Illorin, a province of more than thirty thousand square miles and a population of about one million.
- He was ordained Bishop of Ilorin on 1 August 1969 in Kampala, Uganda, by the pope.
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