Bernard Hackett (bishop)

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic prelate (1863–1932)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Bernard Hackett | honorific_suffix = CSSR | title = Bishop of Waterford and Lismore | church = Roman Catholic | diocese = Waterford and Lismore | metropolis = Cashel and Emly | enthroned = 19 March 1916 | term_end = 1 June 1932 | appointed = 29 January 1916 | ordination = 24 June 1888 | consecration = | ordained_by = | consecrated_by = | predecessor = Richard Alphonsus Sheehan | opposed = | successor = Jeremiah Kinane | birth_date = {{Birth date|1863|5|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|6|1|1863|5|24|df=y}} | death_place = Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland | parents = | alma_mater = Mount Melleray Seminary St John's College, Waterford St Patrick's College, Maynooth | motto = | other_post = Rector, Redemptorist College at Marianella, Rathgar | previous_post = Rector, Redemptorist College at Mount St Alphonsus, Limerick }}

'''Bernard Hackett''' CSSR (b Dungarvan 24 May 1863; d Waterford 1 June 1932) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore from 1916 until his death.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhacket.html | title = Bishop Bernard Hackett †Deceased Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland | last = | first = | date = | website = Catholic Hierarchy | publisher = Roman Catholic Church | access-date = 13 August 2024 | quote = Bishop Bernard Hackett C.SS.R. (born 24 May 1863, died 1 Jun 1932) Bishop of Waterford and Lismore }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1069008 | title = Letter from Bishop B. Hackett to Hagan | last = | first = | date = 17 July 1922 | website = | publisher = Georgetown University | access-date = 13 August 2024 | quote = }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000663344/HierarchyTree?recordID=vtls000663344 | title = Letter from Bernard Hackett, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, to John Redmond insisting his action was unintelligible | last = | first = | date = 4 October 1916 | website = | publisher = National Library of Ireland | access-date = 13 August 2024 | quote = }}</ref> == Life == Hackett was educated at Mount Melleray Seminary; St John's College, Waterford; and St Patrick's College, Maynooth.<ref name=Canning>{{cite book | last=Canning | first= Bernard| author-link= | title= Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987| location= Ballyshannon | publisher= Donegal Democrat| pages=304| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref> He was on the staff of St John's from 1890 until 1904.<ref name=Canning /> He joined the Redemptorists in 1904<ref>{{cite book | last = | first = | author-link = | date = 1923 | title = Thom's Irish Who's Who | url = https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Thom%27s_Irish_Who%27s_Who/Waterford_and_Lismore,_Bishop_of | location = Dublin | publisher = Alexander Thom & Co. | page =  | isbn = |quote= WATERFORD AND LISMORE, Bishop of, The Most Rev. Bernard Hackett, D.D.; cons., 17th March, 1916, in succession to Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, D.D. Educ. at Mount Melleray. St. John's College, Waterford, and Maynooth; Priest, 1888; Professor at St. John's College, Waterford, 1888-1900; joined Redemptorist Order, 1904. Res.: John's Hill, Waterford. }}</ref> and took his vows on 8 September 1905.<ref>{{cite book | last = | first = | author-link = | date = 1987 | title = A DICTIONARY of the REDEMPTORISTS | url = https://www.santalfonsoedintorni.it/Libri/BolandDizio/Boland00Dictionary.pdf | location = Rome | publisher = Collegium S. Alfonsi de U rb | page =150 | isbn = |quote= Coming to the Redemptorists, Hackett took his vows on 8 September 1905 }}</ref> He served as Rector in Rathgar; and then Limerick.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=CC19160303-01.2.51&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- | title = The Catholic Columbian, Volume 41, Number 9, 3 March 1916 | last = | first = | date = 3 March 1916 | website = | publisher = Catholic News Archive | access-date = 13 August 2024 | quote = It was not until sixteen years after his ordination in 1888 that he joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, rapidly rising to high office therein. He soon became rector, first of the Dublin, then of the Limerick house of the order }}</ref> Hackett was ordained Bishop of Waterford and Lismore on 19 March 1916, and served until his death.<ref>{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, pp. 368–370.</ref>

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==Sources== * {{cite book |editor-last=Moody |editor-first=T. W. |editor2-last=Martin |editor2-first=F. X. |editor3-last=Byrne |editor3-first=F. J. |title=Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II |year=1984 |publisher=Oxford University Press |series=A New History of Ireland |volume=IX |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-821745-5 }}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef | before=Richard Alphonsus Sheehan}} {{s-ttl | title=Bishop of Waterford and Lismore|years=1916 – 1932}} {{s-aft | after=Jeremiah Kinane}} {{s-end}} {{Roman Catholic bishops of Waterford and Lismore}} {{Roman Catholic dioceses in Ireland}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland}}

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