Barnaby Bolger was an
Anglican
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priest
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in
Ireland
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during the seventeenth century.
Bolger was born in
County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny ( gle, Contae Chill Chainnigh) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the South-East Region. It is named after the city of Kilkenny. Kilkenny County Council is the local authority for the cou ...
and educated at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
. He was
Prebendary of
Clonamery in
Kilkenny Cathedral from 1591 until 1615; and
Prebendary of
St John's in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Christ Church Cathedral, more formally The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, is the cathedral of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the cathedral of the ecclesiastical province of the United Provinces of Dublin and Cashel in the ( ...
from 1602 until 1613. He was
Dean of Ossory
The Dean of Ossory or Dean of Kilkenny is based at The Cathedral Church of St Canice, Kilkenny in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland.
The current Dean is the Very Reverend Stephen Farrell, formerly Rector of Zio ...
from 1612 until his death in 1617. Bolger was also
Prebendary of
Kilmactalway in
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Saint Patrick's Cathedral ( ir, Ard-Eaglais Naomh Pádraig) in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1191 as a Roman Catholic cathedral, is currently the national cathedral of the Church of Ireland. Christ Church Cathedral, also a Church of Ireland ca ...
from 1615.
["Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p134 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878]
References
Archdeacons of Ossory
Deans of Ossory
17th-century Irish Anglican priests
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
1617 deaths
Christian clergy from County Kilkenny
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