Patrick William Rooke (born 1955) was the Bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry in the

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. He retired on 31 October 2021. Born on 12 April 1955, he was educated at

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and

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; and

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in 1979. He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in

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and Ballywillan, then held incumbencies at Craigs and Ballymore. He was

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from 2006 until 2011.‘TUAM, KILLALA AND ACHONRY, Bishop of’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, Oct 201
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1955 births People educated at Sandford Park School Alumni of Salisbury Theological College 21st-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub