Anthony O'Garvey

Anthony O’Garvey was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore from 1747 to 1763 or 1766 during the Recusancy in Ireland. He succeeded to a vacant bishopric administered by the Archbishops of Armagh and was succeeded by Bishop Denis Maguire. Bishop O’Garvey feared living openly in Newry and instead lived in the townlands at Aughnagon. The Bishop is recorded as assisting at a 1759 A.D. consecration in the Hibernia Dominicana at page 361.^[1]^[2]

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^ William Maziere Brady The Irish Reformation or The Alleged Conversion of the Irish Bishops at the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, and the Assumed Decent of the Present Established Hierarchy in Ireland from the Ancient Irish Church, Disproved (5th ed.). 1867. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., p. 80
^ "History of Dromore Diocese". Archived from the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014., Dromore Diocese.org, “History of the Diocese”

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by vacant	Bishop of Dromore 1747–1766	Succeeded by Denis Maguire

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[1] William Maziere Brady The Irish Reformation or The Alleged Conversion of the Irish Bishops at the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, and the Assumed Decent of the Present Established Hierarchy in Ireland from the Ancient Irish Church, Disproved (5th ed.). 1867. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., p. 80

[2] "History of Dromore Diocese". Archived from the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2014., Dromore Diocese.org, “History of the Diocese”

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