# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-j-cleary
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:31:05.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-j-cleary"
name: "Michael J. Cleary"
slug: "michael-j-cleary"
description: "Michael J. Cleary C.S.Sp. was an Irish prelate and Roman Catholic Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia. He was born in Brickens, County Mayo, Ireland. He was educated at St Jarlath's College in Tuam, before entering the novitiate where he also studied for an arts degree in University College Dublin."
tagline: "Irish Roman Catholic Bishop"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1925-09-01"
deathDate: "2020-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.19
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           5.935637333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Joseph_Cleary"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "مايكل جى كليرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Cleary"
    title: "Michael J. Cleary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Cleary"
    title: "Michael J. Cleary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Cleary"
    title: "Michael J. Cleary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cleary"
    title: "Michael Cleary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Cleary"
    title: "Michael J. Cleary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974137"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump