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Anglican bishop
Walter Cope was an 18th-century
Anglican
bishop in
Ireland .
[1]
Cope was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin .
[2]
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
[3] to
Ferns and Leighlin
[4] on 9 August 1782, he died in post on 31 July 1787.
References
^ 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 .
^ 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
^
London Gazette
^ "The Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events, Volume 14" London, J.Almon, 1782