Pierse Power

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic prelate (1839–1891)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific_prefix = [[The Most Reverend]] | name = Pierse Power | honorific_suffix = | 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 = 17 December 1887 | term_end = 22 May 1889 | appointed = | ordination = | consecration = | ordained_by = | consecrated_by = | predecessor = [[John Power (bishop)|John Power]] | opposed = | successor = [[John Egan (bishop)|John Egan]] | birth_date = 1827 | birth_place = [[Clonmel]], [[Ireland]] | death_date = 1889 (aged 61-62) | death_place = [[Waterford]], Ireland | parents = | alma_mater = [[St John's College, Waterford]]<br>[[St Patrick's College, Maynooth]] | motto = | other_post = | previous_post = [[Parish priest]], [[Dungarvan]] }}

'''Pierse Power''' (1827 – 1889) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Roman Catholic]] clergyman who served as the [[Bishop of Waterford and Lismore]] from 1887 until his death.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpowerpet.html | title = Bishop Piers Power † Deceased Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland | last = | first = | date = | website = Catholic Hierarchy | publisher = Roman Catholic Church | access-date = 19 August 2024 | quote = }}</ref>

== Life == Power was educated at [[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=302| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref> After a curacy at [[Clonmel]], he was on the staff of St John's from 1858 until 1879.<ref name=Canning /> Power was [[parish priest]] at [[Dungarvan]] from 1879 until 1886 when he was ordained [[Coadjutor bishop]] of [[Bishop of Waterford and Lismore|Waterford and Lismore]] with the right of succession. He became bishop on 17 December 1887<ref>{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, pp. 368–370.</ref> and served until his death on 22 May 1889.<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 }}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef | before=[[John Power (bishop)|John Power]]}} {{s-ttl | title=Bishop of Waterford and Lismore|years=1887 – 1889}} {{s-aft | after=[[Richard Alphonsus Sheehan]]}} {{s-end}} {{Roman Catholic bishops of Waterford and Lismore}} {{Roman Catholic dioceses in Ireland}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland}} {{Authority control}}

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