Patrick Joseph Harrington (born 12 September 1939) is the Bishop

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-emeritus

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 of the Diocese of Lodwar in Kenya

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He was born in Kilmeague

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, County Kildare

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, Ireland

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. He was ordained a priest

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 on 16 December 1963 for the Society of African Missions

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. On 17 February 2000 he was appointed Bishop of Lodwar. He was ordained a bishop on 20 March of the same year. The principal consecrator

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 was Cardinal Jozef Tomko; his principal co-consecrators were Bishop John Christopher Mahon, S.P.S], and Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth. He resigned as Bishop of Lodwar on March 5, 2011 and was succeeded in this office by Dominic Kimengich.