Robert Fowler was an

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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 ...

in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries. Fowler was educated at

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and

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. He was

Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin The Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral is the senior cleric of the Protestant St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, elected by the chapter of the cathedral. The office was created in 1219 or 1220, by one of several charters granted to the cathedral by A ...

from 1793 to 1794; Rector of Urney and

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from 1794 until 1813;

Bishop of Ossory . The Bishop of Ossory () is an Episcopal polity, episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Provinces of Ireland, Province of Leinster, Ireland. In the Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but i ...

from 1813 to 1835; and then the inaugural

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from 1835 until his death aged 75 on 31 December 1841. He was the son of Archbishop Robert Fowler of Dublin.Essay "The bishop" (1960) by Hubert Butler, appearing P.32 in "Escape from the anthill"

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1766 births 1841 deaths Archdeacons of Dublin Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin Anglican bishops of Ossory Bishops of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Place of birth missing {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub