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Paul Francis Duffy

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Paul Francis Duffy
OMI
Bishop of Mongu
Church Catholic Church
Diocese Diocese of Mongu
In office June 14, 1997 – February 15, 2011
Predecessor Diocese erected
Successor Evans Chinyama Chinyemba
Orders
Ordination December 22, 1962
by Stephen Aloysius Leven
Consecration August 31, 1997
by Giuseppe Leanza
Personal details
Born July 25, 1932
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
Died August 23, 2011 (aged 79)
San Antonio, Texas, United States

Paul Francis Duffy, OMI (July 25, 1932 – August 23, 2011) was the first Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mongu, Zambia.

Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, United States, Duffy was ordained to the priesthood in 1962. He joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the USA in 1952 and was ordained priest on 22 December 1962.

He left for Zambia in 1982, working in Lukulu and Kalabo. In 1997, Duffy was appointed bishop of the Mongu Diocese, retiring in 2011.[1] He died later that year in San Antonio Texas, USA, suffering from leukaemia.[2]

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