{{Short description|Theologian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2021}} '''George M. Conroy''' (30 December 1832 – 4 August 1878) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop and theologian.<ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bconr.html Catholic Hierarchy]</ref>
From Dundalk, County Louth, he was educated in Armagh, before at the age of 17 going to Rome to study for the priesthood, where he was ordained on 6 June 1857.<ref>{{cite book | last=Canning | first= Bernard| author-link= | title= Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987| location= [[Ballyshannon]] | publisher= [[Donegal Democrat]]| pages=68| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref> Following ordination, he was appointed to [[All Hallows College]], Dublin where he taught as Professor of Dogma, from 1857 to 1866.<ref>[http://allhallows.ie/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Missionary.pdf The Missionary College of All Hallows 1842-1891] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114031345/http://allhallows.ie/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Missionary.pdf |date=14 November 2017 }} All Hallows College Archives.</ref> In 1866, he was appointed secretary to the Archbishop of Dublin, [[Cardinal Cullen]], whom he had known from his time in Armagh, and Dr. Conroy also began lecturing in Theology in [[Clonliffe College]], he also served as joint editor of the ''[[Irish Ecclesiastical Record]]'' from its foundation 1864 until 1871, when he was appointed a Bishop.<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/27678557 Periodically from Maynooth] by Sean Corkery, ''The Furrow'' 38, no. 9 (1987): 571–78.</ref> Following his appointment to Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1871, Bishop Conroy, continued to support Cardinal Cullens reforms, and implemented the changes from the 1875 Synod of Maynooth.<ref>'Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish Catholicism' By Desmond Bowen, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.</ref>
He served as [[Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]] from 1871 until his death.<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/conroy_george_10E.html Bishop George Conroy] Dictionary of Canadian Biography</ref> Appointed by Pope Pius IX to be the first apostolic delegate to Canada, he went there in 1877. He died on his way back to Europe on 4 August 1878, in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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