Walter Cope (bishop)

Walter Cope was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Cope was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2]

Previously Dean of Dromore, he was nominated to be Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 27 January 1772 and consecrated on 15 March that year. Translated[3] to Ferns and Leighlin[4] on 9 August 1782, he died in post on 31 July 1787.

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
2. Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 177: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
3. London Gazette
4. "The Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events, Volume 14" London, J.Almon, 1782

Church of England titles
Preceded by Samuel Hutchinson	Dean of Dromore 1759–1772	Succeeded by Joseph Deane Bourke
Preceded by Denison Cumberland	Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh 1772–1782	Succeeded by John Law
Preceded by Joseph Deane Bourke	Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1782–1787	Succeeded by William Preston