Patrick Whitney
Monsignor Patrick Joseph Whitney, was an Irish priest who in 1932 founded the Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions known as the Kiltegan Fathers. He was training as a priest in Maynooth College for the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise when on the invitation of Bishop, Joseph Shanahan, he volunteered as a priest in Nigeria where he went with Fr Roynane in the 1920s. His cousin Fr Patrick Francis Whitney was one of the first three members of the society.
