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Anglican bishop

Walter Cope was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.

Cope was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.

Previously Dean of Dromore, he was nominated to be Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 27 January 1772 and consecrated on 15 March that year. Translated to Ferns and Leighlin on 9 August 1782, he died in post on 31 July 1787.

References

  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  2. Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 177: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. London Gazette
  4. "The Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events, Volume 14" London, J.Almon, 1782
Church of England titles
Preceded bySamuel Hutchinson Dean of Dromore
1759–1772
Succeeded byJoseph Deane Bourke
Preceded byDenison Cumberland Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh
1772–1782
Succeeded byJohn Law
Preceded byJoseph Deane Bourke Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
1782–1787
Succeeded byWilliam Preston
Deans of Dromore
Bishops of Clonfert and of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh
Clonfert
Clonfert & Kilmacduagh
Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin


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