Archbishop Noel Treanor will be laid to rest at west Belfast’s St Peter’s Cathedral, it has been confirmed.
The Cathedral on the Falls Road will be open for people to pay their respects on Monday, ahead of a Requiem Mass and burial the following day.
The 73-year-old former Bishop of Down and Connor died last Sunday in Belgium, where he had been working as the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to the European Union.
Originally from Tyholland in Co Monaghan, the senior Catholic cleric served as bishop of Down and Connor from 2008 until 2022.
A Requiem Mass will take place on Friday at the Church of Notre-Dame au Sablon in Brussels, before his remains will return to Ireland the following day.
On the journey to Belfast, his remains will pass through his home parish of Tyholland.
They will arrive at St Peter’s on the Falls Road on Sunday ahead of the liturgy of reception at 6pm which will be streamed live online at the Church Services TV website.
St Peter’s will welcome visitors who wish to pay their respects throughout the day on Monday until 8pm.
Requiem Mass will then take place on Tuesday at noon, with the service also being live streamed.
A death notice states interment will follow the service in the Cathedral’s Chapel of Resurrection.
The notice adds the Archbishop is “predeceased by his father John and mother Molly” and his passing is “deeply regretted by his brother John (Margaret) and sister Mary (Jim) nephew John Thomas and nieces Lisa, Rachael, Catharine, Erin and Rhíannon, extended family and friends, Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ, Bishop of Down and Connor, Clergy and Religious of the Diocese of Down & Connor and the Diocese of Clogher.”
Paying tribute to his predecessor, the current Bishop of Down and Connor, Alan McGuckian, said Archbishop Treanor “will be remembered as a tremendously gifted academic, a proficient modern linguist, and a highly skilled diplomat”.
