Pope Benedict XVI today appointed Monsignor Paul Tighe as Prelate of Honour. He now receives the honorific title Right Reverend Monsignor.
Last November Monsignor Tighe, who was Director of Public Affairs for the Dublin Diocese for three years, was given a senior position in the Vatican Curia when he was appointed Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
In January of last year he was appointed Chaplain to His Holiness with the title Very Reverend Monsignor along with nine other priests of the Dublin Diocese. At that time, four priests of the Diocese were also appointed Prelates of Honour with the title Right Reverend Monsignor.
A native of Navan in County Meath, Mgr Tighe graduated from UCD in 1979 with a degree in Law. Having studied for the priesthood in Holy Cross College in Clonliffe and at the Irish College in Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Dublin Diocese in 1983. His first appointment was as parish chaplain and teacher in Ballyfermot. Later, he went on to study Moral Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. Since 1990 he has been a lecturer in Moral Theology in the Mater Dei Institute in Dublin, he was appointed head of the Theology department in 2000.
