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The Rt Rev. Kevin Doran

BA STB MA

Episcopal Governor (Ireland)

Bishop Kevin Doran is Bishop of Elphin in Ireland. As a member of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ireland, Bishop Kevin chairs the Committee for Bioethics and is also a Member of the Council for the Family.

Bishop Kevin’s undergraduate studies led to the award of a BA in Philosophy and French (1974) from the University College Dublin and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) from the Pontifical Gregorian University (1977). He was awarded an MA in Philosophy (1987) from UCD for his thesis on the philosophy of the Human Person in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Bernard Lonergan. This was followed in 1995 by the award of a PhD from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), for a thesis entitled Solidarity: A Synthesis of Personalism and Communalism in the thought of Karol Wojytla / Pope John Paul II.

Sincerest Thanks for Your Support

Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.

We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.