Mags GarganWorld Missions Ireland (The Work of the Pontifical Mission Societies) has appointed Fr Maurice Hogan as its new National Director.
Fr Hogan is a member of the Missionary Society of St Columban (Columban Fathers). Ordained in 1965, he has served as a missionary in Japan and more recently in Hong Kong before returning to Ireland in 2012 to become Society Archivist.
In between mission assignments, he taught Sacred Scripture at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth.
He has been appointed director for a three-year term.