Henry Robert McAdoo (10 January 1916 – 10 December 1998) was a

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clergyman. He was born in Cork and educated at Cork Grammar School and Mountjoy School in Dublin. He studied modern languages (French and Irish) in

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, was scholar in 1936 and graduated in 1938. He was ordained as a deacon in 1939 and as a priest in 1940. He was the incumbent of Castleventry with Ardfield from 1943 to 1948, with Kilmeen from 1947 to 1948, Rector of Kilmocomogue and Rural Dean of Glansalney West and Bere from 1948 to 1952 and Canon of Kilbrittain in Cork Cathedral, and Canon of Donoughmore in Cloyne Cathedral from 1949 to 1952. He served as

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1952–62,

Dean of Leighlin The Dean of Leighlin is based at the Cathedral Church of St Laserian, Old Leighlin in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland. The current incumbent is Thomas W. Gordon. List of deans of Leighlin *1603/4–1614 ...

, 1962–63; Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1962–77 and Archbishop of Dublin 1977–85. He was the first Anglican co-chairman of the

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. His time as archbishop was cut short by ill-health and he resigned in 1985. He died on 10 December 1998 at Dalkey, County DublinDeath of former Archbishop of Dublin
''The Church Of Ireland Press Release''. Retrieved on 17 August 2009. and was buried at Kilkenny. He had married Lesley Weir, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

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