{"id":5220,"date":"2025-07-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:27:18","slug":"fr-michael-igoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=5220","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Michael Igoe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Society of African Missions, Irish Province<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Michael-Igoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5221 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-color-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3dd277612c5e11ef306a2b6e86cac4cc wp-block-paragraph\">Born in the Diocese of Meath on 3 July, 1931<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-color-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ed4b04cef1b0d4fcfbd6dee14a836be2 wp-block-paragraph\">Became a member of the Society of African Missions on 2 July, 1952<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-color-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d60cfe0a3e36c9572838f7ed2f7e3686 wp-block-paragraph\">Ordained to the priesthood on 13 June 1956<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-color-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2bf16be83a31974fa8aaadc98edf1cbd wp-block-paragraph\">Died on 2 July 2025 at the age of 93 years. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ab8112e2cbcc516a43e99943d77d7644 wp-block-paragraph\">1956- 1967 Vicariate of Ondo-Ilorin, Nigeria <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6143d70dbcb71fda9a1521837084b140 wp-block-paragraph\">1968-1969 Formation team, Cloughballymore, Kilcolgan, Co Galway, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4a3459e3cf93c118ffe6d98a95ecf91f wp-block-paragraph\">1969- 1972 Formation team, St. Joseph&rsquo;s SMA College, Wilton, Cork, Ireland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a3bf632b61f8a6fc326419f7c5126f3 wp-block-paragraph\">1973-1980 Diocese of Ndola, Zambia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ab0eb1b29b18e3caddaf7f55dabd205b wp-block-paragraph\">1980- 1981 Sabbatical programme, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b74a05fb260435e246ed238a09c3c676 wp-block-paragraph\">1981-2003 Diocese of Ndola, Zambia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8734974185753e32cd2f0d86258d73cf wp-block-paragraph\">2003- 2008 Archdiocese of Lusaka, Zambia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8354b381f1322c47aec7babfcbcec424 wp-block-paragraph\">2008- 2025 African Missions, Blackrock Road, Cork<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f567e5ea78fac216c346756477d58913 wp-block-paragraph\">Fr. Michael was in failing health in recent years. He died peacefully at St. Theresa&rsquo;s Nursing Unit, SMA House, Blackrock Road, Cork on 2nd July 2025, aged  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-730a2e777518d7347155abbdb60467e9 wp-block-paragraph\">93 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ef50c0f79368e723b06e86e3c9ce94f2 wp-block-paragraph\">The funeral mass took place of on Saturday, 5th July 2025.<br><br>Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society of African Missions, Irish Province Born in the Diocese of Meath on 3 July, 1931 Became a member of the Society of African Missions on 2 July,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-necrologe-sma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}