Patrick Finegan

Styles of Patrick Finegan
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	My Lord
Religious style	Bishop

Patrick Finegan (1858–1937) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1910 to 1937.

Born in the townland of Corlurgan in County Cavan, Ireland on 16 August 1858, educated at Kilmore Academy and St. Patrick's College, Cavan which replaced it as the Diocesan School and seminary, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Kilmore on 18 December 1881.^[1] He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Kilmore by Pope Pius X on 11 September 1910.^[1][2][3] Finegan's episcopal consecration took place on 11 September 1910; the principal consecrator was Patrick O'Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe (later Archbishop of Armagh), and the principal co-consecrators were Joseph Hoare, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and Laurence Gaughran, Bishop of Meath.^[1][2][3]

Bishop Finegan died in office on 25 January 1937, aged 78.^[1][2][3] He remained a priest for 55 years and a bishop for 26 years.^[1]

Notes

1. "Bishop Patrick Finegan". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
2. Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 437.
3. Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 350.

References

• 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.
• Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Volume IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.