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Treanor returned to Rome in 1981 to complete further studies, while also serving as Prefect of Studies at the Pontifical Irish College. He subsequently returned to Ireland in 1985, when he was appointed diocesan director of adult education and organised a diocesan assembly of clergy held in 1986 to
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At the diocesan congress in 2013, he launched a review into ensuring that diocesan pastoral activities matched current resources, initiating a review of pastoral structures which drew upon the results of a census held in 2011. New pastoral communities were drafted and presented to clergy in three
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meetings and subsequently to the lay faithful, with a regular practice rate of 20% across the diocese significantly influencing future structures, leading to increased sharing of personnel, skills and finances.
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in October 2009, he advocated for a Yes vote, saying that Roman Catholics could vote in favour of the treaty in good conscience. Treanor cited his experience with
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were made public for the first time, Treanor expressed his support for an international, independent inquiry into the events of the massacre, adding:
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Speaking at a press conference in August 2010, where previously undisclosed documents from diocesan archives relating to the
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He was recalled to the Diocese of Clogher in 1980, where he received his first diocesan assignment as assistant in the
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committee that ratification of the treaty would not affect Irish sovereignty over issues such as
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and Rackwallace, with responsibility for the local Catholic marriage advisory council.
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promote pastoral renewal within the diocese. Treanor was next appointed curate in
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Treanor died of a heart attack in Brussels, on 11 August 2024, at the age of 73.
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from 2022 until his death in 2024. He was Secretary-General of the
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Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union
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of COMECE on 31 March 1993, and subsequently appointed
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Treanor was born on 25 December 1950 at Silverstream,
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Index

His Excellency
The Most Reverend
Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union

Roman Catholic
Aldo Giordano
Bishop of Down and Connor
COMECE
Pontifical Irish College
Patrick Mulligan
Seán Brady
Tyholland
Brussels
Alma mater
St Patrick's College, Maynooth
Pontifical Gregorian University
Noël Treanor's coat of arms

Reference style
The Most Reverend
His Excellency
The Most Reverend
Your Excellency
Archbishop
Roman Catholic
prelate
Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union
archbishop
Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union
Down and Connor

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