Michael O'Gara (died 1748) was an Irish clergyman who served as the

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Archbishop of Tuam The Archbishop of Tuam ( ; ) is an Episcopal polity, archbishop which takes its name after the town of Tuam in County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1839, and is still in use by the Cathol ...

from 1740 to 1748.

Biography

O'Gara trained as a priest at the Irish College at Alcalá de Henares, in Spain. He was appointed

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of the metropolitan see of Tuam by

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on 19 September 1740, and received faculties as

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later in the same month. He received dispensation to exercise all the archiepiscopal acts without the

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on 28 November 1741. He died in office in 1748.

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