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{{Short description|Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type =
| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend
| name = Patrick Carew
| title = Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| church = [[Catholic Church]]
| archdiocese =
| diocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta#List of Ordinaries of Calcutta|Apostolic Vicariate of Western Bengal]]
| see =
| term =
| predecessor = [[Jean-Louis Taberd]]
| successor = [[Marc-Thomas Oliffe]]
| ordination =
| ordained_by =
| consecration = 24 June 1838
| consecrated_by= John Murphy
| birth_name=Patrick Joseph Carew
| birth_date = 1800
| birth_place = [[Waterford]], [[Ireland]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kottuppallil|first1=George|title=History of the Catholic Missions in Central Bengal, 1855-1886|date=1988|publisher=Vendrame Institute|page=48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJAcAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 July 2017|language=en}}</ref>
| death_date = 2 November 1855 (age 55)
| death_place =[[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], British India<ref>{{cite book|last1=Boase|first1=Frederic|title=Modern English Biography: A-H|date=1892|publisher=Netherton and Worth|page=543|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIVmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA543|access-date=18 July 2017|language=en}}</ref>
| previous_post = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore|Vicar Apostolic of Madras]] (1838-1840)<br/>[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta|Vicar Apostolic of Bengal]] (1840-1850)
}}

Most Rev. '''Patrick Joseph Carew''' (1800 – 2 November 1855) was the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta|Vicar Apostolic of Western Bengal]].<ref name=CathHierPatJCrew>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcarep.html Catholic Hierarchy: "Archbishop Patrick Joseph Carew"] retrieved 8 November 2015.</ref>

==Biography==
Patrick Joseph Carew was born in [[Waterford, Ireland]]. On 6 March 1838, [[Pope Gregory XVI]] appointed him [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore|Vicar Apostolic of Madras]] and Titular Bishop of ''Philadelphia in Arabia.''<ref name=CathHierPatJCrew/>

On 24 June 1838, he was consecrated bishop by John Murphy, [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork|Bishop of Cork]] with [[Nicholas Foran (bishop)|Nicholas Foran]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore|Bishop of Waterford and Lismore]], and [[Francis Haly]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin|Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin]] as Co-Consecrators. On 4 April 1840, he succeeded to the Vicar Apostolic of Madras replacing Bishop Daniel O'Connor.<ref name=CathHierPatJCrew/>

On 30 November 1840, he was appointed [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta|Vicar Apostolic of Bengal]] and Titular Archbishop of ''Edessa in Osrhoëne''. In 1850, the name of the vicariate was changed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Western Bengal. After several months of illness, Carew died on 2 November 1855 at the Archbishop's residence in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], aged 55.<ref name=CathHierPatJCrew/><ref>{{cite news |title=Death of the Most Rev. Archbishop Carew |work=Waterford News |date= 21 December 1855 |page=2}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author|sname=Patrick Joseph Carew |birth=1800 |death=1855}}

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