Father Michael Healy will be honored as 'Corkman of the Year'

Dec. 5, 2019
Catholic San Francisco

Father Michael Healy, pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo will be honored as “Corkman of the Year” by the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco Dec. 7.

The Cork city native celebrating his Golden Jubilee in 2020 has served at more than a half-dozen San Francisco parishes. He has been longtime chaplain to the SFPD, and to the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

In the 1980s and early 1990s when Irish immigration to the city was at a modern peak, Father Michael was a driving force in what was called the ‘Joseph and Mary’ group which offered support to the new immigrants, later becoming the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center.