Fr Aidan McGarth OFM Fr Aidan McGarth OFM has been chosen as the new provincial of the Irish Province of Franciscan friars after an election at Franciscan College, Gormanston in Co. Meath.
Up to his election, Fr McGarth was General Secretary of the Franciscan Order in the General Curia in Rome. A native of Banbridge, Co. Down, he was ordained into priesthood in 1980 and obtained a Doctorate in Canon Law at the Gregorianum University, Rome. Since then, Fr McGarth has served many different capacities within the Irish Province and the Church in Ireland.
The 80 friars in Chapter also elected Fr Joe Condren, OFM, as Vicar Provincial. A Dublin native, Fr Joe was part of the Franciscan presence in Zimbabwe, in recent years.