William Codd

William Codd, Doctor of Divinity (b Wexford 6 July 1864; d Enniscorthy 12 March 1938) was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop.[1]

Codd was educated at St Peter's College, Wexford; and the Irish College, Rome.[2] He was ordained priest on 24 April 1889. and appointed a teacher at his old school, rising to be its head. In 1912 he became Parish Priest at Blackwater, County Wexford.[3] He was the Bishop of Ferns from 1917 until his death.[4]

References
  1. Catholic Hierarchy
  2. "Codd, William". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 16 February 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Catholic Herald
  4. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 355–356. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

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