Nicholas Conaty

Styles of Nicholas Conaty
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	My Lord
Religious style	Bishop

Nicholas Conaty (1820–1886) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop for the Diocese of Kilmore.

He was born in 1820 to John Conaty and his wife Honora Brady and educated at Kilmore Academy before completing his clerical studies in Maynooth College. Conaty was ordained a priest in 1848, and appointed co-adjutor Bishop of Kilmore in 1863, and Bishop of Kilmore in 1865 succeeding Dr James Browne. Before becoming a bishop he was a professor in Kilmore Diocesan Seminary, he also taught at All Hallows College Dublin, and served as parish priest in Knocktemple, Co. Cavan.

He established the new diocesan seminary and school St. Patrick's College, Cavan^[1] and employed the renowned church architect William Hague on its building and other church buildings in the diocese. He brought the Poor Clares (enclosed order of nuns) to Cavan in the 1860s.

He dies on the 17th of January 1886 and was succeeded by Bishop Bernard Finegan, who had been the parish priest of Drumlane, Cavan.

Published Works

• The Catholic Church - proved to be the Church of Christ by Rev. N. Conaty, Published by James Duffy, 1852.

References

1. The College Boys, Students of the Kilmore Academy and St Patrick’s College, Cavan 1839 - 2000, by Raymond Dunne and Francis J. MacKiernan, published by Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne, Cavan(2008).