William Keane (bishop)
William Keane (b Castlemartyr 7 April 1805; d Cobh 15 January 1874) was a nineteenth-century Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
Keane was educated at the Irish College in Paris. He was ordained priest in Paris on 2 July September 1828, and was on the staff of the ICP for 11 years. He returned to be curate of Fermoy, after which he was parish priest at [[Midleton from 1841 to 1851. He was Bishop of Ross from 1851 to 1857 Keane was Bishop of Ross from 1877 when he was translated to Cloyne.
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- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.