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William Clancy
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William Clancy (12 February 1802 – 19 June 1847) was an Irish Roman Catholic missionary in the United States and British Guiana.
The son of a farmer, William Clancy was born in West Cork and educated at St. Patrick's, Carlow College in Carlow, and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. He was ordained to the priesthood at Maynooth on 24 May 1823. He then served as a curate until 1829, when he became a professor of theology at St. Patrick's, Carlow.
John England, Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, had been appointed as the Pope’s Legate to the Government of Haiti. Due to the additional responsibilities, England requested assistance. On 30 October 1834 Clancy was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina and Titular Bishop of Oreus by Pope Gregory XVI.
He received his episcopal consecration on the following 21 December at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow, from Bishop Edward Nolan, with Archbishop Michael Slattery and Bishop William Kinsella serving as co-consecrators. He served as coadjutor to Bishop John England, who was busied with the vast jurisdiction of the diocese and his work as papal legate to Haiti.
Clancy's arrival in Charleston was delayed to a severe illness. Upon recovering, he visited family and friends in Cork and Carlow, and attempted to recruit priests and seminarians for Charleston. A personal reluctance also factored into his delay: "If there is any other place where the knowledge of philosophy and theology and the faculty of preaching in English would rebound to the glory of God [let me go there]. If however the Holy Father insists I shall go with a heavy heart." He finally arrived in Charleston in November 1835.
After a few months' dissatisfied sojourn, Clancy requested a transfer to another field. He claimed there was an insufficient amount of work to be done, and Bishop England wrote to Rome: "He is very distinguished for his character, zeal and piety, but in one year he has wrecked that whole constitutional system of church government which has taken me years to perfect.
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