Bridget mary meehan biography of christopher

More than 40 years ago, when Bridget Mary Meehan was an Immaculate Heart of Mary sister teaching in Delaware County parish schools, she was forming the foundation that eventually led her to becoming a bishop with the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests.

“Everything, I learned in ‘Nunhood ’ — prayer, ministry and service of the church,” said Meehan, who taught fifth grade at the old St.

Rose of Lima Grade School in Eddystone in , and fourth grade at the former Sacred Heart Grade School in the Manoa section of Haverford in

Thursday afternoon at Pendle Hill Quaker study retreat and conference center, Meehan presided at the ordination of three Roman Catholic women from the United States, Canada and South America as bishops at a Mass celebrated with about 40 Roman Catholic women priests clad in white robes, and approximately 35 other supporters, male and female.
The new women bishops include Mary Eileen Collingwood of Hudson, Ohio, Michele Birch-Conery of Windsor, Ontario and