John Kearney, D.D.

Doctor of Divinity

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 (c.1742–1813) was the Church of Ireland

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 Bishop of Ossory

Bishop of Ossory

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 from 1806 to 1813.

Born circa 1742 in Dublin, the son of a barber-surgeon, Kearney was elected a Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin

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 in 1760 and a Fellow

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 in 1764. He held the Chair of Oratory from 1781 until his appointment as Provost in July 1799. Kearney was nominated Bishop of Ossory

Bishop of Ossory

The Bishop of Ossory is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Province of Leinster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.-History:The diocese of Ossory...

 on 4 January and appointed by letters patent

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 on 20 January 1806. He was consecrated

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 at Trinity College Chapel on 2 February 1806, by Charles Agar

Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton

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, Archbishop of Dublin

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, assisted by Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare

Bishop of Kildare

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 and Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Down and Connor

Bishop of Down and Connor

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. Kearney died in office at Kilkenny

Kilkenny

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 on 22 May 1813.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1806.