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had said of Knox that he was "…very foolish, without learning, piety, judgment, conduct, sense, appointed by a job, that his uncle should resign
Limerick", while Anthony La Touche Kirwan (Dean of Limerick, died 1868), said that Knox "…used, when made to preach by his uncle, to get me to write his
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Ireland was inevitable. As Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, he hoped to build a new cathedral in Belfast, but abandoned this plan in favour of another, to increase the number of churches of the united diocese. He founded the Belfast Church Extension Society in 1862 and through it achieved
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453:sermon, and could not deliver it".
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573:"Knox, Robert Bent (1808–1893)"
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317:Primate of All Ireland
57:Primate of All Ireland
1331:People from Dungannon
535:Fruits of the revival
523:Selected publications
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629:Wilberforce, R. G.,
529:Ecclesiastical Index
421:In 1849 he became a
313:Archbishop of Armagh
53:Archbishop of Armagh
1140:Christopher Hampton
930:Nathaniel Alexander
571:Gordon, Alexander,
509:Charles Edmond Knox
450:James Henthorn Todd
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994:Charles King Irwin
890:Francis Hutchinson
513:lieutenant-general
446:Samuel Wilberforce
425:and was appointed
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391:In 1832, Knox was
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159:Consecration
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1265:Robin Eames
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1215:Robert Knox
1180:John Hoadly
1130:John Garvey
1115:Adam Loftus
1027:Robin Eames
1022:George Quin
959:Robert Knox
865:Roger Boyle
671:Lee, Sidney
412:Edmund Knox
358:Edmund Knox
345:Robert Bent
244:Nationality
238:County Down
134:(1849–1886)
106:Predecessor
93:11 May 1886
42:Robert Knox
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900:John Ryder
820:Hugh Allen
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404:prebendary
323:Early life
289:Alma mater
183:1808-09-25
162:1 May 1849
146:Ordination
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383:in 1888.
381:Cambridge
191:Dungannon
116:Successor
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98:In office
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258:Anglican
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