Michael Smith (bishop)


Michael Smith
Bishop Emeritus of Meath
ArchdioceseArmagh
DioceseMeath
PredecessorJohn McCormack
SuccessorThomas Deenihan
Orders
Ordination9 March 1963
by Cardinal Traglia, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Consecration29 January 1984
by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich
Personal details
NationalityIrish
DenominationRoman Catholic
Coat of arms

Michael Smith KC*HS (born 6 June 1940) is the retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath, Ireland. He was ordained priest in the Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran on 9 March 1963 by Cardinal Traglia, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano. He celebrated his first mass on 10 March 1963 in the Clementine Chapel, located under the Altar at Papal Basilica of Saint Peter.