Fintan Gavin
Fintan Gavin is the Catholic Bishop of Cork and Ross. He was the chancellor of the Dublin Archdiocese from 2017 to 2019.
Fintan Gavin was born in Dublin on 1 January 1966 and educated at Scoil Mhuire, CBS, Boys National School, and Ardscoil Rís, CBS, in Marino. He studied for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, and University College Dublin.
During his priestly formation, Gavin trained at SIPTU Liberty Hall, Dublin, at the Northlands addiction treatment counselling centre, Derry, and at Saint Patrick's Hospital, Mental Health Services, James Street, Dublin.
Following ordination in 1991 and graduation, while working as a priest in the Diocese of Dublin, Gavin was a school teacher in Bray, County Wicklow.
Gavin earned a licentiate and a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
He is fluent in Italian and Spanish.
Gavin was appointed Bishop of Cork and Ross on 8 April 2019 by Pope Francis. His episcopal ordination took place in the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne on 30 June 2019.
In October 2019 Bishop Gavin became the first bishop of the diocese to say a "station mass".
