Fr. Neil Xavier O' Donoghue
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Fr. Neil Xavier O' Donoghue

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Fr. Neil Xavier O'Donoghue is originally from Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland. He has completed a Bachelor of Arts (1997) and a Master in Divinity (2000) at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. He has also earned a Masters of Theology in Liturgy (2003) from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY and a Master of Arts in Theology with a concentration in Liturgical Studies (2005) in the University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame, IN. In the year 2000 he was ordained to the ministerial priesthood for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, NJ and from 2002 to 2013 he served as Prefect of Studies at Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary in Kearny, NJ. In 2006 he was awarded a Doctorate in Theology (Ph.D.) specializing in Liturgy from St. Patrick's College, Pontifical University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. In 2024 he successfully defended his thesis for a second doctorate, and was awarded the degree of Doctor en Sagrada Teología (S.T.D.) at the Facultad de Teología «Redemptoris Mater,» located in La Punta – Callao, Peru. In summer 2013 Fr. Neil returned to his native Ireland on loan from the Archdiocese of Newark to the Archdiocese of Armagh to help establish a new Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Dundalk, Co. Louth, where he served as Vice Rector for a term of 5 years. In September 2018, he started a new position as Lecturer of Systematic Theology at St. Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. He now serves as Director of Liturgical Programmes at the Pontifical University and as Executive Secretary for Liturgy to the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference.
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