Michael Courtney

Who was Michael Courtney?

The Most Reverend Michael Courtney was the Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi and Titular Archbishop of Eanach Dúin

Michael Aidan Courtney was born in Summerhill, Nenagh, County Tipperary. He entered Clonfert Seminary and was ordained a priest on 9 March 1968. He entered the Holy See's diplomatic service in 1980, working at nunciatures in South Africa, Senegal, India, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Egypt. He was named the Special Envoy and Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, on 30 December 1995.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi and Titular Archbishop of Eanach Dúin on 18 August 2000. He received episcopal ordination on 12 November 2000 at St Mary of the Rosary Church in Nenagh from Francis Cardinal Arinze, Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, with Bishops John Kirby and William Walsh as co-consecrators.