George Michael Conroy

George M. Conroy (1832–1878) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and bishop.[1]

From Dundalk, County Louth, he was educated in Armagh, before at the age of 17 going to Rome to study for the priesthood, where he was ordained on 6 June 1857.[2] Following ordination, he was appointed to All Hallows College, Dublin where he taught as Professor of Dogma, from 1857 to 1866.[3] In 1866, he was appointed secretary to the Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Cullen, whom he had known from his time in Armagh, and Dr. Conroy also began lecturing in Theology in Clonliffe College, he also served as joint editor of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record from its foundation 1864 until 1871, when he was appointed a Bishop.[4] Following his appointment to Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1871, Bishop Conroy, continued to support Cardinal Cullens reforms, and implemented the changes from the 1875 Synod of Maynooth.[5]

He served as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise from 1871 until his death.[6] Appointed by Pope Pius IX to be the first apostolic delegate to Canada, he went there in 1877. He died on his way back to Europe on 4 August 1878, in St. John's, Newfoundland.

  1. ^ Catholic Hierarchy
  2. ^ Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 68. ISBN 1870963008.
  3. ^ The Missionary College of All Hallows 1842-1891 Archived 14 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine All Hallows College Archives.
  4. ^ Periodically from Maynooth by Sean Corkery, The Furrow 38, no. 9 (1987): 571–78.
  5. ^ 'Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish Catholicism' By Desmond Bowen, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
  6. ^ Bishop George Conroy Dictionary of Canadian Biography