For some time now the name of Fr Brendan Leahy has been floating around as the probable appointment for Kildare and Leighlin.
Fr Leahy is Professor of Systematic Theology in Maynooth and is a
priest of the Dublin diocese. He is also qualified as a barrister and
did his theological studies in the Pontifical Gregorian University in
Rome.
He has worked as a priest in Clonskeagh, Lusk and was registrar of
Mater Dei Institute. He also served as Secretary of the Advisory
Committee on Ecumenism of the Irish Bishops' Conference (1999-2010);
member of Inter-Church Meeting (1999-present) and of Three Faiths Forum
of Ireland (1999-present); chairman of Dublin diocesan ecumenical
committee in Dublin diocese (1999-present); member of ITA
(2005-present); corresponding member of the Pontifical Theology Academy
(2004-present); Co-chair of the Theology Forum of the Irish Inter-Church
Meeting (2010-) (www.irishchurches.org); Visiting lecturer at the Sophia University Inst., Loppiano, Flornence (www.iu-sophia.org).