Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan

{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan | honorific_suffix = [[Dominican Order|OP]] | title = [[Bishop of Cork]] | church = [[Catholic Church]] | diocese = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross|Diocese of Cork]] | term = 14 November 1886 – 14 June 1916 | predecessor = [[William Delany (bishop)|William Delany]] | successor = [[Daniel Cohalan (bishop of Cork)|Daniel Cohalan]] | previous_post = Titular Bishop of [[Lambaesis]] (1884-1886) Coadjutor Bishop of Cork (1884-1886) | ordination = July 1863 | consecration = 29 June 1884 | consecrated_by = [[Giovanni Simeoni]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1839|5|9|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[County Cork]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1916|6|14|1839|5|9|df=y}} | death_place = Cork, County Cork, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland }}

'''Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan''' (9 May 1839 – 14 June 1916) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop who was born and died in [[Cork (city)|Cork]].<ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bocalt.html Bishop Thomas (Alphonse) O’Callaghan, O.P.] - Catholic Hierarchy.</ref>

O'Callaghan was educated at Minerva College, Rome and [[ordained]] a Dominican priest in 1863. He received the degree of [[Doctor of Divinity]] (DD). He became Prior of St Clement's, Rome in 1881.<ref>{{Who's Who | title=O'Callaghan, Thomas Alphonsus | id = U201079| type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 17 February 2021 }}</ref> [[William Delany (bishop)|William Delany, Bishop of Cork]] preferred successor was [[Henry Neville (Rector)|the Dean of Cork, Henry Neville]] but he was viewed unfavourably by [[Thomas Croke]], the [[Archbishop of Cashel]] and O'Callaghan was selected.<ref>[https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40147868.html Echo Live- the fascinating history of Cork’s bishops]</ref> He was consecrated [[coadjutor bishop]] of [[Bishop of Cork|Cork]] in 1884 before succeeding in 1886. He died in post in 1916.<ref name="HOCBC">{{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=Third |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=344}}</ref>

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