Joseph MacNeil


Joseph Neil MacNeil was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
MacNeil was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and was ordained a priest on May 23, 1948. MacNeil was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick, on April 9, 1969, and consecrated on June 24, 1969. MacNeil was appointed bishop of the Archdiocese of Edmonton on July 2, 1973 until his resignation on June 7, 1999. He died after a stroke on February 11, 2018, at the age of 93.