Clement Smyth
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The Right Reverend Clement Smyth |
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| Bishop of Dubuque | |
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| Appointed | January 9, 1857 (Coadjutor) |
| In office | February 20, 1858 – September 22, 1865 |
| Predecessor | Mathias Loras |
| Successor | John Hennessy |
| Other posts | Prior of New Melleray (1849–1857) Titular Bishop of Thennesus Coadjutor Bishop of Dubuque (1857–1858) |
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| Ordination | May 29, 1841 |
| Consecration | May 9, 1857 by Peter Richard Kenrick, Archbishop of St. Louis |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 24, 1810 Finlea, County Clare, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Died | September 22, 1865 (aged 55) Dubuque, Iowa, United States |
Timothy Clement Smyth OCSO DD (February 24, 1810 – September 22, 1865) was an Irish born 19th century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the second leader of the Diocese of Dubuque following the death of Mathias Loras.
Timothy Smyth was born on February 24, 1810 in Finlea, County Clare, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Smyth initially entered a community of teaching brothers, the Brothers of the Presentation. He left that community after six years and took the name of Clement when he entered Mount Melleray Abbey in 1838. He professed religious vows as a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, also known as the Trappists. He was ordained a priest at the abbey on May 29, 1841. Father Smyth founded a school for boys at Mount Melleray and another school developed outside the abbey gates for girls. Because of the devastation brought about by the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s the community started looking for a place in North America for a new abbey where the monks could farm the land. A place near Bedford, Pennsylvania was acquired and Father Smyth, as prior, along with another monk were sent to establish a new monastery. The property was deemed unsuitable, as well as other property the small community looked at in both the United States and Canada. Eventually they came to the Dubuque, Iowa area where the Trappists were invited to establish a monastery in the diocese by Mathias Loras, Bishop of Dubuque. After resigning as prior, Smyth again established a school at New Melleray according to Loras' wishes. He was again appointed prior of the monastery on December 6, 1849.
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