James Walshe was an Irish Catholic priest and bishop in Kildare and Leighlin; before becoming a bishop he was president of Carlow College, where he had previously been a professor. He was born 30 June 1803 in New Ross, County Wexford, to Philip Walshe, and his wife, Mary Walshe (née Doyle, a cousin of the

Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, one of the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Dublin. The episcopal title takes its name from the towns of Kildare and Old Leighlin ...

James Warren Doyle James Warren Doyle, O.E.S.A. (1786–1834) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in Ireland, who used the signature "JKL", an acronym from "James Kildare and Leighlin." Doyle was active in the Anti-Tithe movement. A campaigner for ...

"JKL", and a lecturer at Carlow College). He was educated, at the commercial and classical school in New Ross, records show that he went to Dublin to study medicine, but he returned to Wexford and went to study at St Peter's College, Wexford from 1823 to 1826 when he went to St. Patrick s College, Carlow to complete his theological studies and where he was ordained priest in 1830. He was appointed professor of humanities, of moral philosophy, and theology, in Carlow College. He then served as curate in the cathedral parish in Carlow, following this he was appointed vice-president of the college and professor of Greek and sacred scripture. Following the retirement of Taylor, in 1850, Walshe was appointed president. On the death of the Bishop

Francis Haly Francis Haly (1783–1855) was the Roman Catholic Bishop in Kildare and Leighlin from 1838 until his death in 1855. He was born in Doonane, in Co. Laois and entered Maynooth College St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláis ...

, in 1855, Walshe was appointed

The Right Rev. James Walshe. D.D. Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects. He was an advocate for temperance issuing a number of pastorals and sermons on the merits of temperance and evils of intemperance. He died on 5 March 1888.

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