Michael O'Gara

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Michael O'Gara (died 1748) was an Irish clergyman who served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam from 1740 to 1748. [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

O'Gara trained as a priest at the Irish College at Alcalá de Henares, in Spain. He was appointed archbishop of the metropolitan see of Tuam by papal brief on 19 September 1740, [1] [2] [3] and received faculties as bishop later in the same month. [1] He received dispensation to exercise all the archiepiscopal acts without the Pallium on 28 November 1741. [1]

He died in office in 1748. [1] [2] [3]

See also

Bernard O'Gara - Brother, Archbishop of Tuam from 1723 to 1740

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. p.  147.
  2. 1 2 3 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  3. 1 2 3 Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 379. ISBN   0-19-821745-5.
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Preceded by Archbishop of Tuam
1740–1748
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