Clinton-Dubuque County IA Archives News.....Rev. Coffey Assigned June 29, 1937
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Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa June 29, 1937
Jackson Sentinel, June 29, 1937 

Rev. Patrick J. Coffey 

The appointment of the Rev. Patrick J. Coffey, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic 
Church, Farley as rector of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Dubuque, was 
announced recently by the Most Rev. Archbishop Francis J. Beckman. Rev. Coffey 
succeeds Right Rev. Mons. J. J. Hanley, who died May 11th. Father Coffey will 
take over his new duties in the near future. 

The new rector was born in Ireland. He received his college education at the 
Jesuit college in Limerick, Ireland, and studied theology at St. Patrick's 
Seminary, Carlow, Ireland. He was ordained in Ireland, June 4, 1898, coming to 
this country for service in the Dubuque diocese immediately thereafter. 

Rev. Coffey's first assignment was assistant to Right Rev. Msgr. P. McLaughlin 
at Clinton. In 1902 he was appointed pastor at Temple Hill. Nine years later 
he was transferred to the pastorship of St. Patrick's church at North 
Garryowen, where he served until 1923. He had been pastor at Farley since that 
time. Father Coffey is one of the archdiocesan consultors, a member of the 
archdiocesan building committee and state chaplain of the Knights of Columbus. 




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