John Patrick Comiskey

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{{short description|21st-century Canadian Catholic priest and writer}}

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John Patrick Comiskey

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| title = Pastor of Mary Immaculate Parish

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| diocese = Diocese of London

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| other_post = Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, St. Peter's Seminary

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| ordained_by = John Michael Sherlock

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| previous_post = Vice-Rector of St. Peter's Seminary

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| birth_place = Ontario, Canada

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| nationality = Canadian

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| alma_mater = Pontificia Università Gregoriana
St. Peter's Seminary,
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John Patrick Comiskey is a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and author in the Diocese of London. Comiskey is Moderator of the Curia and Bishop's Delegate, and assistant professor of historical theology and a former Vice-Rector at St. Peter's Seminary.[http://www.maryimmaculate.rcec.london.on.ca/info_frjohn.php Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Parish Profile][http://www.stpetersseminary.ca/academics/faculty/comiskey/ St. Peter's Seminary Faculty Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007163102/http://www.stpetersseminary.ca/academics/faculty/comiskey/ |date=7 October 2013 }} The job of the bishop's delegate is to reach settlements with victims of clergy abuse on behalf of the diocese.{{Cite news|title=The walking wounded: In Canada, survivors of Catholic Church sex abuse await a reckoning|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-walking-wounded-in-canada-survivors-of-catholic-church-sex-abuse/|access-date=2021-09-01}}

Comiskey studied at St. Peter's Seminary before being ordained to the priesthood at St. Peter's Cathedral Basilica in London, Ontario by Bishop John Michael Sherlock.

Education

Publications

=Books=

  • {{cite book |last1=Comiskey |first1=John P. |title=My Heart's Best Wishes for You: A Biography of Archbishop John Walsh |format= |date=31 July 2012 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=978-0773540132|title-link=John Walsh (bishop) }}

=Articles=

  • {{cite journal |last=Comiskey |first=John P. |date=January 2007 |title=Michael Power:The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (review) |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=214–215 |doi=10.1353/cat.2007.0075 |s2cid=162233645 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Comiskey |first=John P. |date=January 2007 |title=Eternal Memory! Father Achiel Delaere (1868-1939): The First Eastern Rite Redemptorist and Canada's Ukrainian Catholic Church (review) |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=216–217 |doi=10.1353/cat.2007.0076 |s2cid=161594005 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Comiskey |first=John P. |date=October 2006 |title=Dictionnaire biographique des évêques catholiques du Canada: Les diocèses catholiques canadiens des Églises latine et orientales et leurs évêques; repères chronologiques et biographiques, 1658–2002 (review) |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=704–705 |doi=10.1353/cat.2007.0008 |s2cid=161176897 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Comiskey |first=John P. |date=January 2002 |title=The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887–1922 (review) |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=163–164 |doi=10.1353/cat.2002.0012 |s2cid=162212571 }}

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