Please pray for Australian-born Hazaribag Jesuit missionary Fr Geoff Meagher SJ, who died on 5 March at Tata Cancer Hospital in Kolkata, India.
Fr Meagher joined the Jesuits in Australia in 1961 and travelled to India as a scholastic in 1966. For the next 54 years, he served in a variety of education, formation and vocation roles within the Hazaribag Jesuit Province including Rector of St Stanislaus College in Sitagarha and Principal of St Xavier’s School in Bokaro Steel City.
Fr Meagher’s funeral Mass was held on 6 March. A Memorial Mass will be held on Tuesday 17 March at 10 am at St Mary’s, North Sydney.
01/02/1961 Entered the Novitiate in Loyola Watsonia, Melbourne
02/02/1963 First Vows in Watsonia, Melbourne, Australia
1963-1965 Philosophy in Loyola, Watsonia, Melbourne, AUS
1966 Arrived in India
1966-1972 Regency at St. Xavier’s Hazaribag [Teaching at SSC Sitagarha]
1968-1969 Language studies in Mussoorie and Dehra Dun
1972-1973 St. Mary’s Kurseong (June-May)
1973-1975 Vidya Jyoti, Delhi (June-March)
1974 10 May Ordained Priest in St. Mary’s North Sydney, Australia
1975-1979 Formation & Teaching (1975-1977 SSC, Sitagarha, Pastoral work)
1977-1979 Catholic Ashram, Bhurkunda
1980 Tertianship in Beschi College, Dindigul
1982 02 February Final Vows in St. Xavier’s Hazaribag
1980-1981 Master of Science in Education [Eng] University of Scranton, USA
1981-1985 Dean of Juniors, SSC Sitagahra, youth work, retreats, vocation promotion
1985-1991 Rector, SSC, Sitagarha
1991-1996 Teaching at St. Xavier’s School, Bokaro Steel City
1997-2005 Principal, St. Xavier’s School Bokaro Steel City
2003-2005 Acting Superior, Bokaro Steel City
2006-2008 PCF & Vocation Promoter, residing at Ankur, Sindur, Hazaribag
2008-2016 PCF & Vocation Promoter, Res. Vivek Sadan, Shahpur
2016-2017 English Professor, Juniorate, SSC, Sitagarha
2017-2019 Teacher, Vivek Sadan, Shahpur, Daltonganj
2019-2020 Asst. Dean of Juniorate, Asst. English Prof. SSC, Sitagarha