Bernard O'Gara

Styles of
Bernard O'Gara
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Grace or Archbishop

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 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 4 5 "Archbishop Bernard (Michael) O’Gara". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  4. 1 2 3 4 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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