Eamon Martin attended primary school at St Patrick's Primary School, Pennyburn, and secondary school at St Columb's College.
17 Facts About Eamon Martin
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Eamon Martin was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Derry on 28 June 1987.
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Eamon Martin completed a Master of Philosophy in school development at St Edmunds College, Cambridge, between 1998 and 1999.
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Eamon Martin has completed a postgraduate certificate in education from Queen's University Belfast and a National Professional Qualification for Headship from the UCL Institute of Education.
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Eamon Martin was appointed executive secretary to the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference in June 2008, before returning to the Diocese of Derry two years later upon his appointment as vicar general.
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Eamon Martin was appointed Chaplain of His Holiness by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 November 2010.
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Eamon Martin was a regular contributor to Thought for the Day and Prayer for the Day on BBC Radio 4, and celebrant and preacher on Sunday Morning Worship on BBC Radio Ulster, as well as on other programmes on RTE and the BBC World Service.
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Eamon Martin was appointed as coadjutor archbishop of Armagh by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 January 2013.
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Eamon Martin spoke of his shock upon learning of the appointment, saying:.
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Eamon Martin is an honorary fellow of St Edmunds College, Cambridge.
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Eamon Martin added that the church "can never take it for granted that the safeguarding systems we have in place are robust and fail-safe, so we have to keep working on that".
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Eamon Martin is a director of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
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Eamon Martin referred to Parolin's comments as an expression of the deeply held conviction about the meaning of marriage in the Catholic Church:.
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Eamon Martin said, look, I'm saddened by the result which I think a lot of people in this country are.
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Eamon Martin said this isn't just a defeat for Christian principles, it's a defeat for humanity.
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In 2016, Eamon Martin expressed his support for an United Ireland, saying:.
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Eamon Martin went to state that he was not aware of any evidence that church buildings had been a source of contagion or of spreading the disease.