Charles O'Reilly (died 1800) was an
Irish Roman Catholic
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prelate
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who served as the
Bishop of Kilmore
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from 1798 to 1800.
He was appointed the
Coadjutor Bishop
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of the
Kilmore and
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Fussala by
Pope Pius VI
Pope Pius VI ( it, Pio VI; born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, 25 December 171729 August 1799) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1775 to his death in August 1799.
Pius VI condemned the French Revoluti ...
on 17 May 1793.
[, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 436.][, ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, p. 350.] On the death of
Denis Maguire
Denis Maguire (also known as Dennis or Dionysius Maguire), DD, O.F.M., (1721–1798) was an Irish Roman Catholic churchman who served as Bishop of Dromore from 1767 to 1770 and Bishop of Kilmore 1770 to 1798.
Early
Dr. Maguire was born in 17 ...
, O'Reilly automatically succeeded as the
diocesan bishop of
Kilmore on 23 December 1798.
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Bishop O'Reilly died in office on 6 March 1800.][
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Year of birth unknown
1800 deaths
18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
Roman Catholic bishops of Kilmore
Place of birth missing
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