Fintan Monahan

Ordination ordained deacon by = Michael Smith date of diaconal ordination = 1 April 1990 place of diaconal ordination = College Chapel, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland ordained priest by = Joseph Cassidy date of priestly ordination = 16 June 1991 place of priestly ordination = Séipéal Mhic Dara, An Cheathrú Rua, Ireland consecrated by = Kieran O'Reilly co-consecrators = Charles John BrownMichael Neary date of consecration = 25 September 2016 place of consecration = Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul, Ennis, Ireland sources =

Monahan attended primary school in Tullamore and secondary school in Scoil Chuimhsotheach Chiaráin, An Cheathrú Rua, before studying for the priesthood in St Patrick's College, Maynooth, in 1984, completing a Bachelor of Science in NUI Maynooth, in 1987, and a Bachelor of Divinity in the Pontifical University in 1990.

Monahan was appointed chaplain to Saint Jarlath's College and Assistant Diocesan Secretary of the Archdiocese of Tuam in 2006, before being appointed Diocesan Secretary in 2007, during which time he worked in the area of communications, promoting vocations, and editing the diocesan magazine, New Dawn. He was also appointed secretary of the diocesan finance committee, director of vocational pastoral care, and designate for child protection.

Monahan was appointed to the Council for Communications of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference in 2013.

Episcopal ministry Monahan was appointed Bishop-elect of Killaloe by Pope Francis on 29 July 2016. He was consecrated by his predecessor, the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Kieran O'Reilly, on 25 September in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Ennis.

During his episcopate, Monahan has also authored a series of books on people whose lives and literary works have inspired him, namely John Henry Newman, Thomas Merton, C. S. Lewis and Pope Benedict XVI.