Bernard O'Gara

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Bernard O'Gara (died 1740) was an Irish clergyman who served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam from 1723 to 1740.[1][2][3][4]

He was selected to be the archbishop of the metropolitan see of Tuam on 14 December 1723,[2] and was confirmed by papal brief on 23 December 1723.[1][2][3][4] He received episcopal ordination at a place of refuge from Bishop Gabriel O'Kelly of Elphin on 24 May 1724.[1][2][3][4] Archbishop O'Gara requested the Pallium, and the dispensing brief was issued in 1726.[1]

He died in office in, or before, June 1740.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Volume 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. p. 147. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Archbishop Bernard (Michael) O’Gara at Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 27 February 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 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. Volume XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 379. ISBN 0-19-821745-5. 


Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Francis Burke		 Archbishop of Tuam
1723–1740 		Succeeded by
Michael O'Gara
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