John Coffey (bishop)

John Coffey, DD (b and d County Kerry 10 January 1836; 14 April 1904) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries.[1]

Coffey was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and ordained in 1865.[2] He was Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe from 1889 until his death.[3] He is buried at St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney.[4]

References

  1. ^ The Post-Reformation Bishops of Kerry Kerry Archaeological Magazine Vol. 4, No. 20 (Apr., 1918), pp. 265-272
  2. ^ Catholic Hierarchy
  3. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 332–334. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  4. ^ Find a grave


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