Denis Kelly

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Denis Kelly, Doctor of Divinity (b Nenagh 12 January 1852; d Cobh 18 April 1924) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop.[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/broch.html Catholic Hierarchy]

Kelly was educated at St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co. Clare (the Killaloe diocesan seminary) and Le Collège des Irlandais, Paris.{{Who's Who | title=Kelly, Denis | id = U198721 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 14 February 2021 }} He was ordained priest on 17 March 1877 and appointed curate of Roscrea after which he was a teacher at his old school, rising to be its head.{{Who's Who | title=Kelly, Denis | id = U198721| type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 17 February 2021 }} He was Bishop of Ross{{cite web |title=Diocese of Ross |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dr200.html |work=Catholic Hierarchy |accessdate=26 November 2013}} from 1897{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 442–443. until his death.{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, pp. 367–368. Kelly was a member of the Agricultural Board for Ireland from 1900 to 1921; the Royal Commissioner on Poor Laws and the Relief of Distress, from 1906 to 1909; and of the Cabinet Committee on Irish Finance from 1911 to 1913. He is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Skibbereen.[http://www.kellyclanireland.com/tracing-kelly-ancestors/general-interests/kelly-s-in-religion?showall=&start=3 Kelly Clan, Ireland]