William Cecil de Pauley (1893 – 30 March 1968) was a

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and

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in the 20th century.

Education and Ministry

De Pauley was born in

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and educated at the

Coleraine Academical Institution Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI and styled locally as Coleraine Inst) was a voluntary grammar school for boys in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Coleraine Academical Institution occupied a site on the Castlerock Road, ...

and

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. He graduated in 1914 with a gold medal in mental and moral philosophy and, after ordination was a

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and

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before becoming

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at St. John's College, University of Manitoba in Canada in 1920. He returned to

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in 1926 to take up the incumbencies at St Peter's

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where he served for four years and St John's

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where he served for four more years before becoming

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from 1932 to 1939. He was then the rector of St Matthias'

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. He was

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from 1950 to 1958.

Episcopal ministry

In 1958 he was appointed Bishop of Cashel and Emly, Waterford and Lismore and consecrated in Armagh in a rare joint episcopal consecration, the other bishop being

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. In the 1960s he took small but important steps in ecumenical relations attending, for example, the

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in Feb 1965 for the deceased Catholic

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Daniel Cohalan (bishop of Waterford and Lismore), the first time an Anglican bishop attended any ceremony in Waterford's Catholic cathedral. He was still the diocese's bishop when he died on 30 March 1968 at the age of 75.

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, 1 April 1968; pg. 10; Issue 57215; col F, ''Rt Rev W. C. de Pauley''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Depauley, Cecil 1893 births 1968 deaths People from Portrush People educated at Coleraine Academical Institution Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin Bishops of Cashel and Waterford Academic staff of the University of Manitoba Academic staff of the University of Toronto 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Christian clergy from County Antrim Scholars and academics from County Antrim Irish expatriates in Canada