William Fitzgerald (Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh)

William Fitzgerald was an Anglican bishop in Ireland at the end of the 17th-century and the beginning of the 18th.^[1]

Fitzgerald had previously been Archdeacon of Ross, Ireland then Dean of Cloyne from 1671 to 1791 when he was nominated for the See of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 9 December 1690.^[2] He was consecrated on 26 July 1691 and died in 1722.

References

↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and ..., Volume 1 By Henry Cotton. p. 261. Retrieved 2014-12-29.

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Henry Rugg	Dean of Cloyne 1671–1691	Succeeded by Henry Scardeville
Preceded by See vacant	Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh 1691–1722	Succeeded by Theophilus Bolton

Bishops of Clonfert and of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh

Clonfert	Richard Nangle Roland de Burgo Stephen Kirwan Roland Lynch, Bishop of Kilmacduagh

Clonfert & Kilmacduagh	Robert Dawson William Bailey Edward Wolley William Fitzgerald Theophilus Bolton Arthur Price Edward Synge Mordecai Cary John Whitcombe Arthur Smyth Hon William Carmichael William Gore John Oswald Denison Cumberland Walter Cope John Law Richard Marlay Hon Charles Brodrick Hugh Hamilton Matthew Young George Beresford Nathaniel Alexander Christopher Butson (see merged to Killaloe and Clonfert)

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