Paul Horan
Paul Horan, O. Carm. is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mutare, Zimbabwe since 2016. He was appointed bishop by Pope Francis on 28 May 2016. He was consecrated and installed there on 28 August 2016.
Background and education
He was born on 17 October 1962, at Drangan, County Tipperary, in Ireland.He attended the Convent of Mercy Primary School in Drangan. For his secondary school education, he attended the Presentation Sisters Secondary School in Ballingarry.
He qualified as an accountant and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and "worked in Ireland and London". He studied at and graduated from the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Divinity degree. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Theology obtained from the Washington Theological Union in the United States, awarded in May 2001.
Priest
In 1989, Father Paul Horan was received into the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel while a seminarian at the Novitiate Seminary at Kinsale. He took his preliminary vows as a Carmelite on 1 September 1990. He then took his perpetual vows as a Carmelite on 15 October 1995. He was ordained a priest of the Carmelite Order on 7 June 1997.As a priest, he served in various roles in different locations including:
- Teacher at both primary and secondary levels at Terenure College, Ireland.
- Head chaplain and head of the Province's Vocations Team.
- Director of Pre-Novices, Director of Novices, School Manager at Kriste Mambo High School, Zimbabwe since September 2001.
- Pastoral caretaker at St. Kilian's Mission, Makoni, Zimbabwe.
- Elected in 2009 and 2012 as a member of the Zimbabwean Carmelite Commissary Council.
- Appointed by the Carmelite General Council to the International Commission for Carmelite Schools and Youth.
- Prior of the new Carmelite Community in Prophet Elijah Priory, Nyazura, Rusape
- Father Paul Horan "was highly instrumental in getting the first Carmelite Nuns to Zimbabwe who arrived there from the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Machakos, Kenya in February 2015".