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Joseph Gray (20 October 1919 – 7 May 1999) was anIrish-bornprelate of theRoman Catholic Church. He served as theBishop of Shrewsbury from 1980 to 1995.[1]
Born inFinternagh,County Cavan, Ireland on 20 October 1919, educated atSt. Patrick's College, Cavan, he entered the seminary of St Mary's Oscott, Birmingham, he wasordained to thepriesthood on 20 June 1943.He pursued further study in canon law at the Dunboyne Institute,Maynooth College, earning his licentiate in canon law in 1950, in 1959 he was invited to Rome, to study at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, where he wrote a thesis for his doctorate in canon law.[2]
He was appointed anauxiliary bishop ofLiverpool andtitular bishop ofMercia on 19 December 1968. Hisconsecration to theepiscopate took place on 16 February 1969, the principalconsecrator wasGeorge Andrew Beck,Archbishop of Liverpool, and the principal co-consecrators wereGeorge Patrick Dwyer,Archbishop of Birmingham andAugustine Harris,Bishop of Middlesbrough. Eleven years later, he was appointed theBishop of Shrewsbury on 19 August 1980.[1]
He retired on 23 June 1995 and assumed the title Bishopemeritus of Shrewsbury. He died on 7 May 1999, aged 79.[1]
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