{{Short description|Irish Anglican bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2020}} {{Portal|Christianity}} ''' Robert Fowler''' was an Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries.<ref>[http://peerageandgentry.com/texts/dod1841/ossoryfernsandleighlinbishopof.html Peers & Gentry]</ref>

Fowler was educated at Westminster<ref>[http://www.thepeerage.com/p38899.htm#i388983 thePeerage.com]</ref> and Christ Church, Oxford.<ref>{{alox2|title=Fowler, Robert (1)}}</ref> He was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1793 to 1794;<ref>[https://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/the-deans-of-saint-patricks-cathedral/ Cathedral web-site]</ref> Rector of Urney<ref>[http://www.cotyroneireland.com/churchrecord/ministers-cofi.html Church of Ireland Rectors]</ref> and Archdeacon of Dublin from 1794 until 1813; Bishop of Ossory<ref>"A New History of Ireland "Moody, T.M; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}</ref> from 1813 to 1835;<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p290 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> and then the inaugural Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin<ref>[http://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_033398 National Library of Ireland]</ref> from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841.<ref>Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Saturday, 8 January 1842; Issue 19033</ref>

He was the son of Archbishop Robert Fowler of Dublin.<ref>Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"</ref>

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