Dermot Clifford (Roman Catholic Bishop)

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Dermot Clifford (Roman Catholic Bishop)
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Grace
Religious style Archbishop
Posthumous style none


His Grace the Most Reverend Dermot Clifford D.D. (born 25 January 1939) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly in Ireland[1]. He was born in Ballymacelligott, County Kerry Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 22 February 1964 for the Diocese of Kerry and was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Cashel and Emly on 17 December, 1985. He was ordained a bishop on 9 March, 1986. The Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Thomas Morris; his Principal Co-Consecrators were Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi and Bishop Diarmaid O’Súilleabháin, the Bishop of Kerry. On 12 September, 1988, Bishop Clifford succeeded Archbishop Morris to become the ordinary of the archdiocese.

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  1. ^ Archbishop Dermot Clifford [Catholic-Hierarchy]
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