Walter Cope (bishop)

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Walter Cope was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.{{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}.

Cope was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860), George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 177: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935

Previously Dean of Dromore, he was nominated to be Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 27 January 1772 and consecrated on 15 March that year. Translated[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/12317/pages/1/page.pdf London Gazette] to Ferns and Leighlin"The Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events, Volume 14" London, J.Almon, 1782 on 9 August 1782, he died in post on 31 July 1787.