Denis Kelly

{{short description|Roman-catholic bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2021}} '''Denis Kelly,''' [[Doctor of Divinity]] (b [[Nenagh]] 12 January 1852; d [[Cobh]] 18 April 1924) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop.<ref>[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/broch.html Catholic Hierarchy]</ref>

Kelly was educated at [[St Flannan's College]], Ennis, Co. Clare (the Killaloe diocesan seminary) and [[Irish College in Paris|Le Collège des Irlandais, Paris]].<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Kelly, Denis | id = U198721 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 14 February 2021 }}</ref> He was [[ordained]] priest on 17 March 1877 and appointed curate of [[Roscrea]] after which he was a teacher at his old school, rising to be its head.<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Kelly, Denis | id = U198721| type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 17 February 2021 }}</ref> He was [[Bishop of Ross (Ireland)|Bishop of Ross]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Diocese of Ross |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dr200.html |work=Catholic Hierarchy |accessdate=26 November 2013}}</ref> from 1897<ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', pp. 442–443.</ref> until his death.<ref>{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, pp. 367–368.</ref> Kelly was a member of the Agricultural Board for Ireland from 1900 to 1921; the Royal Commissioner on Poor Laws and the Relief of Distress, from 1906 to 1909; and of the Cabinet Committee on Irish Finance from 1911 to 1913. He is buried in [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Skibbereen]].<ref>[http://www.kellyclanireland.com/tracing-kelly-ancestors/general-interests/kelly-s-in-religion?showall=&start=3 Kelly Clan, Ireland]</ref>

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==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{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=New History of Ireland |volume=9 |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-821745-5 }} {{refend}}

{{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland}}

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