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 Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with another bishopric. History Until the ...

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

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1940-41 Oxford,

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,1941 he began his career with a

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at Drumcree. 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 Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish and townland, in the Barony (Ireland), barony of Forth in County Carlow, Ireland. It is 3 miles from Tullow and has a notable bridge over the River Slaney. It also has a church, and at one ...

and then Dean of Ossory (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