Anthony Blake (bishop)
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Anthony Blake (c. 1704–1787) was an
Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise from 1756 to 1758 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1758 to 1787.[1]
Biography
Blake was the younger of two sons of Andrew Blake of Kilvine,
]He was a granduncle of
Walter Blake Kirwan and Anthony Richard Blake.[citation needed
]
Blake returned to Ireland from France about 1731, having been educated at
Warden of Galway. His most notable act was the erection of a new parish chapel in the town's middle street, which stood 'till 1833.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ "Archbishop Anthony Blake". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
- Dictionary of Irish Biography, pp. 579–80, Cambridge, 2010.
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