William Fitzgerald (Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh)
William Fitzgerald was an Anglican bishop in Ireland at the end of the 17th-century and the beginning of the 18th.[1]
Fitzgerald had previously been Archdeacon of Ross, Ireland then Dean of Cloyne from 1671 to 1791 when he was nominated for the See of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 9 December 1690.[2] He was consecrated on 26 July 1691 and died in 1722.
References
- ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and ..., Volume 1 By Henry Cotton. p. 261. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
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| Preceded by Henry Rugg |
Dean of Cloyne 1671–1691 |
Succeeded by Henry Scardeville |
| Preceded by See vacant |
Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh 1691–1722 |
Succeeded by Theophilus Bolton |
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