William Keane (bishop)

William Keane (b Castlemartyr 7 April 1805; d Cobh 15 January 1874) was a nineteenth-century Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[1]

Keane was educated at the Irish College in Paris.[2] He was ordained priest in Paris on 2 July September 1828, and was on the staff of the ICP for 11 years. He returned to be curate of Fermoy, after which he was parish priest at [[Midleton from 1841 to 1851. He was Bishop of Ross from 1851 to 1857[2] Keane was Bishop of Ross from 1877[3] when he was translated to Cloyne.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Bishop William Keane † Deceased Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland". Catholic Hierarchy. Roman Catholic Church. Retrieved 6 August 2024. Bishop William Keane (born 7 Apr 1805, died 15 Jan 1874) Bishop of Cloyne
  2. ^ a b Canning, Bernard (1988). Bishops of Ireland 1870–1987. Ballyshannon: Donegal Democrat. p. 244. ISBN 1870963008.
  3. ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 342
  4. ^ "The Devotional Revolution on the Local Level: Parish Life in Post-Famine Ireland". U.S. Catholic Historian. 22 (3): 41–60. Summer 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

Sources

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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