Francis Kelly (bishop of Derry)

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Francis Kelly[1] was an Irish prelate[2] of the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century.[3]

Kelly was born in Drudgeon, County Tyrone on 6 August 1812[4] He was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and ordained on 13 June 1840. After curacies in Strabane and Culdaff he was parish priest at Upper Fahan.[5] He served as Coadjutor Bishop of Derry from 1849 until 1864, and then Diocesan Bishop of Derry until his death on 1 September 1889.[6]

References

  1. 1.Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
  2. 2.Fryde, Edmund Boleslav; Greenway, D.E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British chronology. Offices of the Royal Historical Society : University College. p. 422. OCLC 989682481.
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  4. 4."Bishop Francis Kelly". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  5. 5.Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. pp. 85–88. ISBN 1870963008.
  6. 6.Brady 1876, The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 1, p. 230 and 320.