Charles Maurice Stack (23 August 1825 – 1914) was an Anglican

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. Stack was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of Reverend Edward Stack, and educated at

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 ...

where he graduated in 1848. He was Vicar of

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from 1851 to 1877 when he became the

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. He was appointed

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in 1886 and served the

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for 16 years, until he resigned due to advanced age in November 1902.'Ecclesiastical Intelligence'

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(London, England) Friday, Nov. 21, 1902 Issue 36931p. 9

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stack, Charles Maurice 1825 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Clogher 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Clogher (Church of Ireland) 1914 deaths Place of birth missing