Robert Bonsall Pike was

Bishop of Meath The Bishop of Meath is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient Kingdom of Meath. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric. History Unt ...

from 1959 until his death on 27 December 1973. Born on 19 October 1905, educated at

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and

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in 1930 Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford,

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,1941 he began his career with a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

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. He was then Curate-in-charge of Aghavilly. He married H. K. Joan Moffat Wilson (1917-2005) on 21 April 1938 at St Brigid's Church, Stillorgan. He held incumbencies at Maryborough,

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, and Dysart Enos, was

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Aghade Aghade () is a small civil parish, in the barony of Forth, County Carlow County Carlow ( ; ga, Contae Cheatharlach) is a county located in the South-East Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. Carlow is the second smalles ...

and then

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(1957–1959) before his ordination to the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pike, Robert Bonsall 1905 births 1973 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Ossory Anglican bishops of Meath Deans of Kilkenny 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland