Henry O'Hara
Henry Stewart O’Hara was an eminent Church of Ireland Bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. .Church Appointments
O’Hara was born on 6 September 1843 into an ecclesiastical family: his father was Rector of Coleraine, a post he himself was to hold from 1869 to 1894. Educated at Leicester Collegiate School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1867. While based in Coleraine, he was from 1884 to 1898 Chancellor of Connor Cathedral. In 1894 he was appointed Vicar of Belfast, from 1897 he was also a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and in 1899 he became the first dean) of Belfast. In a meeting of the Bench of Bishops of the Church of Ireland on 6 February 1900, he was elected Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, and he was consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Dublin at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 24 February 1900. He served as such until his retirement in 1919.
Following his consecration as bishop, he received the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Sacra Theologia from Trinity College, Dublin in February 1900.Biography
He married Hatton Thomasina, the daughter of Thomas Scott of Willsboro. He died on 11 December 1923.
