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Joseph Hoare (bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise)

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Joseph Hoare
Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise
Church Catholic Church
Diocese Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise
In office 8 February 1895 – 14 April 1927
Predecessor Bartholomew Woodlock
Successor James Joseph MacNamee
Orders
Ordination 11 June 1867
Consecration 19 March 1895
by Michael Logue
Personal details
Born 15 March 1842
Ballymahon, County Longford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died 14 April 1927 (aged 85)
Longford, County Longford, Irish Free State

Joseph Hoare (born Ballymahon, 15 March 1842 - died Longford, 14 April 1927) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[1]

Hoare was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth[2] and ordained priest on 11 June 1867.[3] He was a curate at Templemichael, County Longford then head teacher at St Mel's College, Longford. He was parish priest of Street, County Westmeath from 1881 to 1887; and then of Carrick on Shannon[4] until his appointment as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1895.[5] He died in post.[6]

References

  1. Back to citation Profile, Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Accessed 15 November 2022.
  2. Back to citation "Hoare, Joseph". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 16 February 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Back to citation Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 72. ISBN 1870963008.
  4. Back to citation Parish web site
  5. Back to citation Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  6. Back to citation Moody, T. W; Martin, F. X; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.