Augustine Cheevers (1686 – 1778) was an Irish

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clergyman A member of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA). Cheevers was born in Killian, County Galway in 1686, one of the six sons of John Chevers and Ellis Geoghegan. Dr. Cheevers was

Bishop of Ardagh The Bishop of Ardagh was a separate Episcopal polity, episcopal title which took its name after the village of Ardagh, County Longford in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It was used by the Roman Catholic Church until 1756, and intermittently by t ...

from 1751 to 1756Bishop Augustine Cheevers
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Bishop of Meath The Bishop of Meath is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient Kingdom of Meath. In the Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric. History Until the ...

from then until his death in Randelstown, aged 92 on 18 August 1778. He is buried in Oristown, County Meath, in Donaghpatrick Cemetery. His uncle Edward Chevers, was made Viscount Mount Leinster by King James II for whom he was Aide-de-Camp at the battle of the boyne, and it is with Viscount Mount Leinster, that Augustine is supposed to have aged 14 gone to France, where he was educated in Paris.The Chevers of Normandy
Navan Historical Society. Due to persecution of the Catholic Church and under the penal laws unable to train priests in Ireland, he founded Burses for students from the diocese, in the College of Douai, France.

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1686 births 1778 deaths Roman Catholic bishops of Ardagh Roman Catholic bishops of Meath 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Christian clergy from County Galway {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub