Joseph Hoare (bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise)

Joseph Hoare (b Ballymahon 15 March 1842; d 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]

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^ Catholic Hierarchy
^ "Hoare, Joseph". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 16 February 2021. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 72. ISBN 1870963008.
^ Parish web site
^ 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.
^ 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. Volume IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5. |volume= has extra text (help)