Francis Kelly was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century.G Catholic
Kelly was born in Drudgeon, County Tyrone on 6 August 1812 He was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and ordained on 13 June 1840. After curacies in Strabane and Culdaff he was parish priest at Upper Fahan. He served as Coadjutor Bishop of Derry from 1849 until 1864, and then Diocesan Bishop of Derry until his death on 1 September 1889., The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 1, p. 230 and 320.
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