About Thomas Fennelly
Lived 1845 – 1927 (aged 82). Thomas Fennelly was a British and Irish catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Thomas Fennelly (27 January 1845 – 24 December 1927) was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly from 1902 until his retirement in 1913.
Fennelly was educated at Thurles College; St Vincent's, Castleknock; and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. He was ordained in 1870. He was parish priest of Moycarkey from 1889 until his appointment as Coadjutor Bishop of Cashel in 1901. He succeeded Archbishop Croke on 22 July 1902.
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Roman Catholic archbishop
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Thomas Fennelly was born on 27 January 1845 in Moyne.
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Thomas Fennelly died on 24 December 1927.
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