Retirement As Archbishop
On 26 April 2004, Desmond Connell retired as archbishop, handing the diocese over to the co-adjutor Diarmuid Martin. All bishops submit their resignation to the Pope on their 75th birthday. Connell's was accepted shortly after he turned 78. Cardinal Connell attended the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in June 2012 and concelebrated at the Statio Orbis mass in Croke Park Stadium.
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