William Keane (bishop)

William Keane (b Castlemartyr 7 April 1805; d Cobh 15 January 1874) was a nineteenth-century Irish Roman Catholic bishop. ^[1]

Keane was educated at the Irish College in Paris. ^[2] He was ordained priest in Paris on 2 July September 1828, and was on the staff of the ICP for 11 years. He returned to be curate of Fermoy, after which he was parish priest at Midleton from 1841 to 1851. He was Bishop of Ross from 1851 to 1857 ^[2] Keane was Bishop of Ross from 1877 ^[3] when he was translated to Cloyne. ^[4]

References

1. "Bishop William Keane † Deceased Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland". Catholic Hierarchy. Roman Catholic Church. Retrieved 6 August 2024. Bishop William Keane (born 7 Apr 1805, died 15 Jan 1874) Bishop of Cloyne
2. Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870–1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 244. ISBN   1870963008.
3. Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 342
4. "The Devotional Revolution on the Local Level: Parish Life in Post-Famine Ireland". U.S. Catholic Historian. 22 (3): 41–60. Summer 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

Sources

• 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.