Joseph Peacocke (bishop of Derry and Raphoe) explained

Joseph Irvine Peacocke (28 November 1866 – 31 January 1962) was a long serving Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.[1]

Born into an ecclesiastical family — his father was Joseph Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin — on 28 November 1866 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1891 and his first post was a curacy in Shankill, Belfast.[2] In 1894 he became Rector of Christ Church, Lisburn.[3] He then held further incumbencies in Dublin and Bangor[4] before his appointment to the episcopate in 1916.[5] He was elected to Derry and Raphoe on 15 March and consecrated 25 April 1916; he resigned 31 December 1944. He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

References

  1. [The Times]
  2. Book: [[Richard Malden|Malden Richard (ed)]] . Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London . The Field Press. 406. 1920 .
  3. [The Times]
  4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  5. “Handbook of British Chronology” By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996, 9780521563505

External links