Role Bishop of Kilmore Name Patrick Lyons | Religious style Bishop Spoken style My Lord Died April 27, 1949 | |
Reference style The Most Reverend | ||
Patrick Lyons (1875–1949) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1937 to 1949.
Born in Collon, County Louth, Ireland on 21 May 1875, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Armagh on 19 June 1898. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Kilmore by Pope Pius XI on 6 August 1937. His episcopal consecration took place on 3 October 1937; the principal consecrator was Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, and the principal co-consecrators were Patrick MacKenna Bishop of Clogher and Edward Mulhern, Bishop of Dromore.
Bishop Lyons died in office on 27 April 1949, aged 73.
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