Patrick Casey (bishop of Ross, Ireland)

Patrick Casey (b Ballynoe 28 January 1873; d Skibbereen 19 September 1940)[1] was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop.[2]

Casey was educated at St Colman's College, Fermoy and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. He was ordained priest in 1896. He taught at St Kieran's College Kilkenny and then at his old school. He was Parish Priest of Newmarket, County Cork and became a Canon of Cloyne Cathedral in 1934. He was Bishop of Ross from 1935[3] until his death.[4] Address Skibbereen, Cork [5]

Notes

1. Cork and Ross Diocese
2. Catholic Hierarchy
3. Fryde, Edmund Boleslav; Greenway, D.E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British chronology. Offices of the Royal Historical Society : University College. pp. 442–443. OCLC 989682481.
4. Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X.; Byrne, F.J., eds. (1984). A New History of Ireland. A Companion to Irish History, part 2. Vol. 9 Maps, genealogies, lists. Clarendon Press. pp. 367–368. ISBN 0-19-821745-5. OCLC 1152598744.
5. "Casey, Patrick". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 15 February 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)