John Shepherd (died 24 February 1713) was an Irish

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in the last decades of the seventeenth and the first ones of the eighteenth centuries. Shepherd was born in

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and educated at

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. He became

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of Limerick Cathedral in 1693;

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of St Munchin in 1695;

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from 1695; the

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in 1704; and

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of Killaloe in 1705."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p481: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878

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17th-century Irish Anglican priests 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Ardfert Diocese of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1713 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub