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Bishop
Emeritus Devlin died at the age of 89, in the early morning of 15 December 2010 at the cathedral's Clergy House. By noon his body had been moved to St. Theresa's Church by Monsignors
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Bishop
Emeritus Devlin's death came just two months after the death of his successor as Bishop of Gibraltar, Charles Caruana.
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Devlin retired as Bishop of
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in 1975. On 20 October 1984 it was announced that he would succeed the late
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He, together with six other priests from around the world, was ordained
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School in 1933. Devlin finished completed his schooling in 1939 at the
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at 4:30pm on 17 December from where it was carried in
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Companions of the Order of St
Michael and St George
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