# James Verschoyle

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{{Short description|Irish Anglican bishop}}
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{{Portal|Christianity}} ''' James Verschoyle, ''' [LL.D.](/source/Legum_Doctor) (1747–1834) was an Irish [Anglican](/source/Anglican) bishop.<ref>"History of the Church of Ireland: From the revolution to the union of the Churches of England and Ireland, January 1, 1801; with a catalogue of the Archbishops and Bishops, continued to November, 1840; and a notice of the alterations made in the hierarchy by the act of 3 and 4 William IV" [Mant, R.](/source/Richard_Mant) p790: London; John W. Parker; 1840</ref>

Educated at [Trinity College, Dublin](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Dublin),<ref>"[Alumni Dublinenses](/source/Alumni_Dublinenses): a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of [Trinity College in the University of Dublin](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Dublin) (1593-1860)" [George Dames Burtchaell](/source/George_Dames_Burtchaell)/[Thomas Ulick Sadleir](/source/Thomas_Ulick_Sadleir) p838: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935</ref> he was successively [Archdeacon of Glendalough](/source/Archdeacon_of_Glendalough),<ref>[https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023822/gv4_nbl_lh_nbl_show5_php_id_051132.html Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland, 1912, Pg.732]</ref> [Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin](/source/Deans_of_St._Patrick's_Cathedral%2C_Dublin)  and [Bishop of Killala and Achonry](/source/Bishop_of_Killala_and_Achonry).<ref name=HBOBC>{{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |pages=395–396}}</ref><ref name=fastihibvol4>{{cite book |last=Cotton |first=Henry |title=The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland |series= Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae |volume=4, The Province of Connaught |year=1850 |publisher=Hodges and Smith |location=Dublin |pages=67–78 }}</ref>

He died in April 1834.<ref>{{cite news | title=Death of the Bishop of Killala | newspaper=[The Morning Chronicle](/source/The_Morning_Chronicle) | location=London, England | date=23 April 1834 | issue=20174}}</ref>

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{{S-bef|before= [John Gast](/source/John_Gast_(priest))}}
{{S-ttl|title=[Archdeacon of Glendalough](/source/Archdeacon_of_Glendalough)|years=1788 &ndash; 1791}}
{{S-aft|after=[James Hastings](/source/James_Hastings_(priest))}}
{{S-bef|before= [Robert Fowler](/source/Robert_Fowler_(bishop_of_Ossory))}}
{{S-ttl|title=[Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin](/source/Dean_of_St_Patrick's_Cathedral%2C_Dublin)|years=1794&ndash; 1810}}
{{S-aft|after=[John Keatinge](/source/John_Keatinge)}}
{{S-bef|before= [Joseph Stock](/source/Joseph_Stock_(bishop))}}
{{S-ttl|title=[Bishop of Killala and Achonry](/source/Bishop_of_Killala_and_Achonry)|years=1810 &ndash; 1834}}
{{S-aft|after=[Power Le Poer Trench](/source/Power_Le_Poer_Trench)<br /><small>[Archbishop of Tuam](/source/Archbishop_of_Tuam) to which [Killala & Achonry](/source/Bishop_of_Killala_and_Achonry) was united</small>}}
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{{Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (Post-Disestablishment)}}
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