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Anthony MacGeoghegan

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Anthony MacGeoghegan, OFM (d1664) was a seventeenth century Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[1]

He was Bishop of Clonmacnoise from 1647 to 1657 when he was translated to Bishop of Meath where he remained until 1661.[2]

Bishop MacGeoghegan was educated at the Irish Franciscan, College of the Immaculate Conception, Prague in Bohemia.

References

  1. ^ "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  2. ^ Annette Kehnel, Clonmacnois the Church and Lands of St. Ciarán:Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th- to 16th Century), 1995, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers – State University, USA. ISBN 3-8258-3442-5