James McCann (bishop)

The Most Rev James McCann, MA, PhD, DD, LLD, was a 20th-century Anglican Bishop.

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Born in Grantham on 31 October 1897 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen’s University, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1920. He held curacies at Ballymena, Ballyclare, Cavan and Oldcastle.

He was Rector of Donaghpatrick from 1930 to 1936 and of St Mary’s, Drogheda, from 1936 to 1945. He was Bishop of Meath from 1945 to 1959, then Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1959 to 1969. He died on 19 July 1983.