Denis Conway (1722–1796) was an Irish

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Minister (Christianity), Christian clergy who is an Ordinary (church officer), ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which me ...

who served as the

Bishop of Limerick The Bishop of Limerick is an Episcopal polity, episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Limerick in the Province of Munster, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church it still continues as a sepa ...

from 1779 to 1796.

Biography

Denis Conway studied at the Irish College in Louvain and was ordained a priest 22 September 1753. He became bishop of Limerick in 1779 receiving consecration by Archbishop James Butler 2nd and died in 1796.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conway, Denis 1722 births 1796 deaths 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Roman Catholic bishops of Limerick Place of birth missing