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Michael O'Gara

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Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland

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Michael O'Gara
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleYour Grace or Archbishop

Michael O'Gara (died 1748) was an Irish clergyman who served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam from 1740 to 1748.

Biography

O'Gara trained as a priest at the Irish College at Alcalá de Henares, in Spain. He was appointed archbishop of the metropolitan see of Tuam by papal brief on 19 September 1740, and received faculties as bishop later in the same month. He received dispensation to exercise all the archiepiscopal acts without the Pallium on 28 November 1741.

He died in office in 1748.

See also

Bernard O'Gara - Brother, Archbishop of Tuam from 1723 to 1740

References

  1. ^ Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. p. 147.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. Vol. XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 379. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded byBernard O'Gara Archbishop of Tuam
1740–1748
Succeeded byMichael Skerrett
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