Monsignor Gerard Mitchell
Monsignor Gerard Mitchell was a senior Irish Catholic priest, a priest of the Archdiocese of Tuam and President of Maynooth College from 1959–1967. Thereafter he became Parish Priest of Ballinrobe until his death in 1990.
His time as President of the National Seminary was marked by the Second Vatican Council and an opening up the College to wider Irish life, including the introduction of lay i.e. non-seminarians to the College. In 1966 he welcome veterans of the 1916 Easter Rising to the College.
