# Richard Walsh (bishop)

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Roman-catholic bishop

**Richard Walsh** [DD](/source/Doctor_of_Divinity) (b [Gortroe](/source/Gortroe) 1697;[1] d [Cork](/source/Cork_(city)) 1763) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop in the eighteenth century.[2]

Walsh was a compromise candidate for the [Bishopric of Cork](/source/Bishop_of_Cork). The two leading candidates were John O’Brien, Parish Priest of [Castlelyons](/source/Castlelyons), and James Butler, nephew of the [Archbishop of Cashel](/source/Archbishop_of_Cashel).[3] He was consecrated on 10 January 1748 and served until his death.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Catholic Hierarchy](https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bwalshr.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-HOCBC_2-0)** Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). *Handbook of British Chronology* (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 344. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-521-56350-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-56350-X).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Echo Live- the fascinating history of Cork’s bishops](https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40147868.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Diocesan web site](http://corkandross.org/priests/most-rev-richard-walsh/)

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v t e Roman Catholic bishops of Cork or Cloyne or of Ross 1540–1693 Cork and Cloyne Lewis Macnamara John O'Heyne Dominic Tirrey Roger Skiddy Nicholas Landes Edmund Tanner Dermot McCraghe James Miagh Robert Miagh William Tirry Robert Barry Peter Creagh Ross Maurice O'Hea Thomas O'Herlahy Bonaventura Naughton Eugene Egan Florence MacCarthy Robert Barry Boetius MacEgan Eugene Egan 1693–1747 Cork and Cloyne† John Sleyne Donagh MacCarthy Thaddeus McCarthy 1747–1850 Cork Richard Walsh John Butler Francis Moylan John Murphy William Delany Cloyne and Ross John O'Brien Matthew McKenna William Coppinger Michael Collins Bartholomew Crotty David Walsh Timothy Murphy 1850–1958 Cork William Delany Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan Daniel Cohalan Cornelius Lucey Cloyne Timothy Murphy William Keane John McCarthy Robert Browne James Roche John Ahern Ross William Keane Micheal O'Hea William Fitzgerald Denis Kelly James Roche Patrick Casey Denis Moynihan Cornelius Lucey 1958–present Cloyne John Ahern John Magee William Crean Cork and Ross Cornelius Lucey Michael Murphy John Buckley Fintan Gavin †During this period the bishops were also apostolic administrators of Ross

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