John McCarthy (born 1815 in

Fermoy Fermoy () is a town on the Munster Blackwater, River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, the town and environs had a population of approximately 6,700 people. It is located in the barony (Ir ...

) was an Irish clergyman and

bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne The Diocese of Cloyne () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Ireland. It is one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel (also known as Munster). History The diocese has its beginnings in the monastic settlem ...

. He was ordained in 1842. He was appointed bishop in 1874. He died in 1893.http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmcarj.html CH

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1815 births 1893 deaths People from Fermoy Roman Catholic bishops of Cloyne 19th-century Irish bishops {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub