Dominick O'Brien

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic prelate (1798–1873)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific_prefix = [[The Most Reverend]] | name = Dominick O'Brien | honorific_suffix = <small>[[Doctor of Divinity|DD]]</small> | title = [[Bishop of Waterford and Lismore]] | church = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] | diocese = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore|Waterford and Lismore]] | metropolis = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly|Cashel and Emly]] | enthroned = 30 September 1855 | term_end = 12 June 1873 | appointed = | ordination = | consecration = | ordained_by = | consecrated_by = | predecessor = [[Nicholas Foran (bishop)|Nicholas Foran]] | opposed = | successor = [[John Power (bishop)|John Power]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | parents = | alma_mater = [[St John's College, Waterford]] | motto = | other_post = | previous_post = [[Parish priest]], [[Dungarvan]] }}

'''Dominick O'Brien,''' <small>[[Doctor of Divinity|DD]]</small> (b & d [[Waterford]] 5 July 1798 - 12 JUne 1873) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Roman Catholic]] clergyman who served as the [[Bishop of Waterford and Lismore]] from 1887 until his death.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = | date = 2008 | title = Bishop O'Brien's Vatican Manuscript | url = https://corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/2008/b2008-004.pdf | journal = Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society | volume = 113 | issue = 1 | pages = 20-23 | doi = | access-date = 20 August 2024 }}</ref>

== Life == O'Brien was educated at [[St John's College, Waterford]] and [[Propaganda Fide]].<ref name=Canning>{{cite book | last=Canning | first= Bernard| author-link= | title= Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987| location= [[Ballyshannon]] | publisher= [[Donegal Democrat]]| pages=301| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref> He was on the staff of St John's from 1826 until 1853, then [[parish priest]] of [[St Patrick's Catholic Church, Waterford|St Patrick, Waterford]].<ref name=Canning /> He was ordained [[Bishop of Waterford and Lismore]] on 30 September 1855<ref>{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, pp. 368–370.</ref> and served until his death.<ref name=Canning />

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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 }}

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