Denis Kelly, Doctor of Divinity (b Nenagh 12 January 1852; d Cobh 18 April 1924) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop. [1]
Kelly was educated at St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co. Clare (the Killaloe diocesan seminary) and Le Collège des Irlandais, Paris. [2] He was ordained priest on 17 March 1877 and appointed curate of Roscrea after which he was a teacher at his old school, rising to be its head. [3] He was Bishop of Ross [4] from 1897 [5] until his death. [6] Kelly was a member of the Agricultural Board for Ireland from 1900 to 1921; theRoyal Commissioner on Poor Laws and the Relief of Distress, from 1906 to 1909; and of the Cabinet Committee on Irish Finance from 1911 to 1913. He is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Skibbereen. [7]
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