Most Rev. Patrick Joseph Carew (1800 – 2 November 1855) was the Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal.Catholic Hierarchy: "Archbishop Patrick Joseph Carew"
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Biography

Patrick Joseph Carew was born in

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. Carew studied for the priesthood in Maynooth, he was appointed Professor of Humanity in 1826. On 6 March 1838,

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appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Madras and Titular Bishop of ''Philadelphia in Arabia.'' On 24 June 1838, he was consecrated bishop by John Murphy, Bishop of Cork with Nicholas Foran,

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, and

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as Co-Consecrators. On 4 April 1840, he succeeded to the Vicar Apostolic of Madras replacing Bishop Daniel O'Connor. On 30 November 1840, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Bengal and Titular Archbishop of ''Edessa in Osrhoëne''. In 1850, the name of the vicariate was changed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Western Bengal. After several months of illness, Carew died on 2 November 1855 at the Archbishop's residence in

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, aged 55.

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* 1800 births 1855 deaths Bishops appointed by Pope Gregory XVI Christian clergy from County Waterford Date of birth missing Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Irish expatriate Roman Catholic bishops {{Asia-RC-diocese-stub