Patrick Everard (died 31 March 1821) was a

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who served as the

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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

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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

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in France. Following his studies, he was the President of the Irish College in Bordeaux and

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to the

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until the

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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 St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland. ...

in Ireland. Everard was elected the

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of the

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by the

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on 19 September, and was approved by

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on 29 September 1814. He was also appointed the

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of ''Mitylene'' on 4 October 1814, and received

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from Bishop William Coppinger of Cloyne and Ross on 23 April 1815. On the death of Archbishop

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on 15 December 1820, Everard automatically succeeded as the

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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''
By William L. Smith And some years after his death

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was founded. The chapel of the college, now a campus of

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, is known as the Everard Memorial Chapel.

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