Charles Petre Eyre
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The Most Reverend Charles Petre Eyre |
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| Archbishop of Glasgow | |
Charles Petre Eyre,
Archbishop of Glasgow |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Glasgow |
| In office | 1878–1902 |
| Successor | John Aloysius Maguire |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 19 March 1842 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 3 December 1868 by Karl-August von Reisach |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Charles Petre Eyre |
| Born | 7 November 1817 Askham Bryan, near York, England |
| Died | 27 March 1902 (aged 84) Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | John Lewis Eyre and Sara Eyre (née Parker) |
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Charles Petre Eyre (1817–1902) was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Glasgow from 1878 to 1902.
Born at Askham Bryan Hall, Askham Bryan, near York, England on 7 November 1817, he was the fifth of nine children of John Lewis Eyre (died 1880) and Sara Eyre, née Parker (died 1825). His father later became a director at the South Western Railway Company. His family was the recusant Eyre family of Derbyshire, a family which had retained their Roman Catholic beliefs since the English Reformation and suffered land loss as a result.
On 28 March 1826, Charles was received into St Cuthbert's College, near Durham. He received the tonsure and the four minor orders (acolyte, exorcist, lector and porter) from Bishop Briggs on 17 December 1839 and he was ordained a subdeacon by the bishop on 25 May 1839. In December 1839, he entered the Venerable English College, Rome, and was ordained a priest there on 19 March 1842. He returned to England and appointed an assistant priest at St Andrew's Catholic Church, Newcastle in 1843, before transferred to St Mary's Church, Newcastle in 1844; becoming the senior priest there in 1847. Afterwards, he took positions at Wooler, Illness and Haggerstone between 1849 and 1856, before returning to Newcastle. He was for many years a canon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle; and for some time was Vicar-General of the diocese.
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