Joseph Hoare (bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise)
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Joseph Hoare (born Ballymahon, 15 March 1842 - died Longford, 14 April 1927) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[1]
Hoare was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth[2] and ordained priest on 11 June 1867.[3] He was a curate at Templemichael, County Longford then head teacher at St Mel's College, Longford. He was parish priest of Street, County Westmeath from 1881 to 1887; and then of Carrick on Shannon[4] until his appointment as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1895.[5] He died in post.[6]