Francis Kelly (bishop of Derry) explained

Archbishop Name:Francis Kelly
Dipstyle:The Most Reverend
Offstyle:My Lord or Bishop

Francis Kelly[1] was an Irish prelate[2] of the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century.[3]

Kelly was born in Drudgeon, County Tyrone on 6 August 1812 He was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and ordained on 13 June 1840. After curacies in Strabane and Culdaff he was parish priest at Upper Fahan.[4] He served as Coadjutor Bishop of Derry from 1849 until 1864, and then Diocesan Bishop of Derry until his death on 1 September 1889.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Brady, W. Maziere . William Maziere Brady . The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . 1876 . Tipografia Della Pace . Rome . 1 .
  2. Book: Fryde . Edmund Boleslav . Greenway . D.E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British chronology . Offices of the Royal Historical Society : University College . 1986 . 989682481 . 422.
  3. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/derr0.htm G Catholic
  4. Book: Canning, Bernard. Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987. . Donegal Democrat. 85–88. 1988 . 1870963008.
  5. , The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 1, p. 230 and 320.

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