Anthony MacGeoghegan, OFM (d. 1664) was a 17th-century Irish

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and bishop. After he entered the Order, MacGeoghegan was educated at the College of the Immaculate Conception operated in

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by the friars for their Irish members due to the restrictions on the Catholic faith in their homeland during that period. MacGeoghegan was appointed as

Bishop of Clonmacnoise Bishop of Clonmacnoise was the ordinary of the Roman Catholic episcopal see based at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland. The bishops of Clonmacnoise (Old Irish: ''Cluain Moccu Nóis'') appear in the records for the first time in the 9th century ...

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in 1647, for which he was

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, the

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and papal

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to Ireland, on 2 April 1648. He served in that office until 1657, when he was

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to the office of

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, where he remained until 1661.Annette Kehnel, ''Clonmacnois the Church and Lands of St. Ciarán:Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th- to 16th Century)'', 1995, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers – State University, USA.

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