Bernard Finegan (b

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15 August 1837; d.

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17 January 1887) was an Irish

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who briefly served in the

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as the

Bishop of Kilmore The Bishop of Kilmore is an episcopal title which takes its name after the parish of Kilmore, County Cavan in Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishopr ...

from 1886 to 1887.

Life

Finegan was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Prior to his

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career, Finegan was the

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from March 1880 to May 1886. He was appointed the

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of the Diocese of Kilmore by

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on 10 May 1886 and the

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was dispatched on 18 May 1886., ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 437., ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, p. 350. Finegan's episcopal consecration took place on 13 June 1886; the principal consecrator was James Donnelly, Bishop of Clogher, and the principal co-consecrators were Thomas McNulty,

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and Bartholomew Woodlock, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise. Bishop Finnegan died in office on 11 November 1887, aged 50.

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* * 1837 births 1887 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Kilmore 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Christian clergy from County Cavan {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub