Joseph Hoare (bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise)

Joseph Hoare (born Ballymahon, 15 March 1842 - died Longford, 14 April 1927) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[1]

Hoare was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth[2] and ordained priest on 11 June 1867.[3] He was a curate at Templemichael, County Longford then head teacher at St Mel's College, Longford. He was parish priest of Street, County Westmeath from 1881 to 1887; and then of Carrick on Shannon[4] until his appointment as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1895.[5] He died in post.[6]

  1. ^ Profile, Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Accessed 15 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Hoare, Joseph". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 16 February 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 72. ISBN 1870963008.
  4. ^ Parish web site
  5. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  6. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.