Patrick Everard (died 31 March 1821) was a
Roman Catholic
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prelate
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who served as the
Archbishop of Cashel and Emly
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from 1820 to 1821.
[, ''The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2'', p. 30.]
Biography
Everard was born in Fethard, County Tipperary, attending a classical school locally. He was educated at the
University of Salamanca
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in Spain where he moved to in 1776, he was ordained in 1783 and obtained a
doctorate of Divinty from the
University of Bordeaux
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in France.
[ Following his studies, he was the President of the Irish College in Bordeaux and ]Vicar General
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to the Archbishop of Bordeaux
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until the French Revolution
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drove him out of the country.[ He spent some time in England as principal of a lay academy at Ulverstone, Lancashire, which he had purchased from the Jesuits, before becoming the president of ]Maynooth College
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in Ireland.[
Everard was elected the ]coadjutor The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
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of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
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by the Propagation of the Faith
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on 19 September, and was approved by Pope Pius VII
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on 29 September 1814.[ He was also appointed the ]titular archbishop
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of ''Mitylene'' on 4 October 1814, and received episcopal consecration
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from Bishop William Coppinger of Cloyne and Ross on 23 April 1815.[ On the death of Archbishop ]Thomas Bray
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on 15 December 1820, Everard automatically succeeded as the metropolitan archbishop
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of Cashel and Emly.[
After holding the office for only a short while, he died on 31 March 1821.][
Everard, in his will left £10,000 ''for the purpose of founding a college to provide a liberal education of catholic youth destined for the priesthood and professional/business careers''.][''St. Patrick's College, Thurles : Irish priests in the United States: a vanishing subculture''](_blank)
By William L. Smith And some years after his death St. Patrick's College, Thurles
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History
M ...
was founded. The chapel of the college, now a campus of Mary Immaculate College
Mary Immaculate College (Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál), also known as MIC and Mary I, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts. Founded in 1898, the university level College of Education and the Liberal Arts is academically linked with the Univ ...
, is known as the Everard Memorial Chapel.
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1821 deaths
Roman Catholic archbishops of Cashel
19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland
Year of birth missing
University of Salamanca alumni
University of Bordeaux alumni
Presidents of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
People from County Tipperary