Father Pat Buckley, a rebel priest, was excommunicated when he was ordained as a bishop in an independent church. His oratory is

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Father Pat Buckley, a rebel priest, was excommunicated when he was ordained as a bishop in an independent church. His oratory is located at the back of the house in Larne, which used to belong to the Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor and which he refused to leave after his suspension from the priesthood in 1986.

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