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Oliver Kelly orO'Kelly (1777–1834) was an Irish clergyman of theRoman Catholic Church who served as theArchbishop of Tuam from 1815 to 1834.[1][2][3]
Born in 1777 in Curraghmore, nearBallinasloe in County Galway,[1] educated at Lawrence Duffy's School (Peterswell), going to theIrish College at Salamanca to study for the priesthood in 1795, he wasordained to thepriesthood in 1800.[3] He was theVicar Capitular of theArchdiocese of Tuam,[3] before being appointedArchbishop of Tuam bypapal brief on 4 October 1814.[2] He wasconsecrated on 12 March 1815 by the Most ReverendJohn Thomas Troy,Archbishop of Dublin, with the Most ReverendDaniel Murray,Coadjutor Archbishop of Dublin and the Most Reverend Kyran Marum,Bishop of Ossory, serving as co-consecrators.[2][3] He was responsible for the building of theCathedral Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tuam.[citation needed]
He died in office atAlbano Laziale on 18 April 1834,[1][2] aged 57, and was buried at theSacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome.[3] His sister Mary Kelly married and moved to the United States; two of her sons became priests, and one of her daughters,Euphemia Blenkinsop, became Mother Superior of the Sisters of Charity inEmmitsburg, Maryland.[4]
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