Patrick Rooke
Patrick William Rooke is the current Bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry.[1]
Born on 12 April 1955, he was educated at Sandford Park School and Salisbury and Wells Theological College; and ordained in 1979.[2] He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Newtownabbey and Ballywillan, then held incumbencies at Craigs and Ballymore. He was Dean of Armagh from 2006 until 2011.[3]
References
- ↑ Diocesan web-site
- ↑ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
- ↑ ‘TUAM, KILLALA AND ACHONRY, Bishop of’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Oct 2014 accessed 10 Jan 2015
| Church of Ireland titles | ||
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| Preceded by Herbert Cassidy |
Dean of Armagh 2006–2011 |
Succeeded by Gregory Dunstan |
| Preceded by Richard Crosbie Aitken Henderson |
Bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 2011– |
Succeeded by Current incumbent |
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