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Church Of Ireland Archdiocese Of Tuam
The Archbishopric of Tuam existed from the mid twelfth century until 1839, with its seat at Tuam. St Jarlath (''c.'' 445–540) is considered to have founded Tuam as the seat of a bishop in about 501, and he stands first in the list of bishops of Tuam. However, the names of only two other bishops are recorded before the eleventh century, Ferdomnach (died 781) and Eugene mac Clerig (died 969). Tuam achieved a new importance after it became the seat of the O'Connor High Kings of Ireland in the early 11th century. The O'Connors had previously been based at Cruachain, County Roscommon.Characteristics of Tuam & Recommendations at heritagecouncil.ie The first St Mary's Cathedral on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuam
Tuam ( ; ga, Tuaim , meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway. It is west of the midlands of Ireland, about north of Galway city. Humans have lived in the area since the Bronze Age while the historic period dates from the sixth century. The town became increasingly important in the 11th and 12th centuries in political and religious aspects of Ireland. The market-based layout of the town and square indicates the importance of commerce. The red Latin cross of the Coat of arms is representative of Tuam's importance as an ecclesiastical centre. The double green flaunches at the sides, represent the two hills or shoulders of Tuam's ancient name, . The two crowns recall the High Kings, Tairrdelbach and Ruaidrí, who were based in Tuam. The broken chariot wheel is a reference to the foundation of the monastic town when St Jarlath's chariot wheel broke. The motto of the town, ''Tuath Thuama go Buan'', translates a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Armagh (Church Of Ireland)
The United Provinces of Armagh and Tuam, commonly called the Province of Armagh, and also known as the Northern Province, is one of the two ecclesiastical provinces that together form the Anglican Church of Ireland; the other is the Province of Dublin. The province has existed since 1833, when the ancient Province of Armagh was merged with the Province of Tuam. The Archbishop of Armagh is its metropolitan bishop. Geographic remit There are six suffragan dioceses in the Province, which cover all of Northern Ireland and, in the Republic of Ireland, the counties of Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan, Louth, Leitrim, part of Sligo, Roscommon (except for its very south), Longford. It covers approximately half of the island of Ireland. The dioceses are: *Armagh *Clogher * Connor * Derry and Raphoe * Down and Dromore * Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh See also * List of Anglican dioceses in the United Kingdom and Ireland The following lists the Anglican dioceses in the Church of Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Temporalities Act 1833
The Church Temporalities Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4 c. 37), sometimes called the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which undertook a major reorganisation of the Church of Ireland, then the established church in Ireland.Boyd Hilton, ''A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 468. The Act suppressed ten bishoprics and merged the corresponding dioceses, with effect from the next vacancy. Provisions The Act provided for merging of dioceses and provinces of the Church of Ireland, and the elimination of Vestry Assessment (church rates or "parish cess"), a cause of grievance in the Tithe War, although disturbance persisted until the Tithe Commutation Act 1838. Footnotes Sources * References External links * {{cite web, url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1833/en/act/pub/0037/index.html, title=Church Temporalities Act, 1833, work=Irish Statute Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Le Poer Trench
Power Le Poer Trench (1770–1839) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as firstly Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, then Bishop of Elphin and finally Archbishop of Tuam. Life He was the second son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, and younger brother of Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty. Born in Sackville Street, Dublin, on 10 June 1770, he was first educated at a preparatory school at Putney, whence he went for a short time to Harrow, and afterwards at the academy of Mr. Ralph at Castlebar, in the immediate neighbourhood of his home. Trench matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, on 2 July 1787, where his tutor was Matthew Young, afterwards bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, and graduated B.A. on 13 July 1791. Later in the same year (27 November) Trench was ordained deacon, and, having received priest's orders on 24 June 1792, he was in the same month inducted into the benefice of Creagh, in which his father's residence and the great fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies
William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies (16 April 1743 – 6 September 1819) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman. Early life Decies was the third son, out of seven sons and eight daughters, of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (himself the only son of Sir Tristram Beresford, 3rd Baronet), and Catherine Poer, 1st Baroness de la Poer, the only daughter and heiress of James Power, 3rd Earl of Tyrone and 3rd Viscount Decies. Among his siblings were George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, John Beresford, MP for Waterford, Catherine Beresford (wife of Thomas Christmas MP and Theophilus Jones MP), Frances Beresford (wife of Henry Flood), and Eliza Beresford (wife of Col. Thomas Cobbe MP, son of Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin). He was educated at Trinity College Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/ Thomas Ulick Sadleir p60: Dublin, Alex Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemmett Browne
Jemmett Browne ( – 9 June 1782) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe from 1743 to 1745, Bishop of Dromore for three months in the middle of 1745, Bishop of Cork and Ross from 1745 to 1772, Bishop of Elphin from 1772 to 1775, and finally Archbishop of Tuam from 1775 until his death in 1782. Of a family seated at Riverstown in County Cork, Browne was descended from an Englishman named Thomas Browne who had settled in the city of Cork about 1660. Born at Cork, the name Jemmett came from the family of his mother, Judith, daughter of Warham Jemmett. His father, Edward Browne, was Mayor of Cork in 1714. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin. On 29 December 1723 was ordained a priest of the Church of Ireland by his relation (through his wife) Bishop Peter Browne. He was appointed Treasurer of Ross in February 1723/24, Vicar Choral of Cork on 14 July 1724, Precentor of Cork on 13 February 1724/25, and Prebendary of Cork in 1732. He then served for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ryder (archbishop)
John Ryder (c. 1697 – 4 February 1775) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, from 1743 to 1752, and then Archbishop of Tuam, from 1752 to his death in 1775. Life The son of Dudley Ryder, haberdasher, he was born at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, about 1697. His grandfather was another Dudley Ryder (died 1683), an ejected rector of Bedworth. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1715, MA in 1719, and DD in 1741. In 1721 Ryder was appointed as vicar of Nuneaton and held the living until his appointment as Church of Ireland bishop of Killaloe by letters patent of 30 January 1742. He was consecrated in St Bridget's, Dublin, on 21 February. Only a year later he was translated to the see of Down and Connor, and was further promoted, in March 1752, to be archbishop of Tuam and bishop of Ardagh. His views were evangelical. Ryder spent his later years at Nice, where he died on 4 February 1775 from the effects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiah Hort
Josiah Hort (c. 1674 – 14 December 1751), was an English clergyman of the Church of Ireland who ended his career as archbishop of Tuam. Born in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, son of John Hort, and brought up as a Nonconformist, Hort went to school with the hymn writer Isaac Watts, who was his lifelong friend. He began as a Nonconformist minister, but then conformed to the Church of England, attending Clare College, Cambridge. He was appointed in turn to the parishes of Wicken in East Anglia and Wendover in Buckinghamshire. In 1709 Hort went to Ireland to serve as chaplain for Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and obtained a parish there, which he couldn't take up for several years pending litigation. In the meantime, he was granted the rectory of Haversham, Buckinghamshire. After two deaneries (Cloyne (1718–1720) and Ardagh (1720–1721)) and two bishoprics (Ferns (1721–1727) and Kilmore & Ardagh (1727–1742)), he became Archbishop of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parker (archbishop)
John Parker (died 28 December 1681) was a Church of Ireland clergyman who came to prominence after the English Restoration, first as Bishop of Elphin, then as Archbishop of Tuam and finally as Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. Early life Born in Dublin, Parker was the son of another Rev. John Parker (d. 1643), also a Church of Ireland clergyman, dean of Leighlin (1618–37) and then of Killaloe, County Clare until his death. A John Parker is recorded as a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1636. Gilbert, J. T., rev. by Jason McElligott, 'Parker, John (d. 1681), Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (OUP, 2004) Career Parker was ordained a deacon in 1638 and in 1642 became a minor canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was prebendary of Rathangan, in the diocese of Kildare, and in 1643 prebendary of Maynooth at St Patrick's and of St Michan's at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, both benefices previously held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Pullen
Samuel Pullen (also Pullein and Pulleyne) (1598–1667) was the Church of Ireland archbishop of Tuam in Ireland. Biography Samuel Pullen was the son of William Pullein, rector of Ripley, Yorkshire. Born in Ripley in 1598, he commenced M.A. at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1623, and in 1624 was appointed the first master, under the second endowment, of the Leeds Grammar School, and lecturer in the parish church. In both offices he was succeeded in 1630 by his brother Joshua Pullen (d. 1657), father of Tobias Pullen. Joshua continued as master until 1651. Samuel accompanied the Marquis of Ormonde to Ireland as private chaplain in 1632. He was installed a prebendary of the diocese of Ossory on 5 June 1634, appointed rector of Knockgraffon, Tipperary, and chancellor of Cashel in 1636. On 14 November 1638 he was created dean of Clonfert in Galway. On the outbreak of the Catholic rebellion in October 1641, Pullen, who was then living in Cashel, Tipperary, was plundered of all his goods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maxwell (archbishop)
John Maxwell (1591–1647), was a Protestant clergyman serving the Church of Scotland and Church of Ireland as Archbishop of Tuam. Early life He was born in 1591 the son of John Maxwell of Cavens, Kirkcudbrightshire, was born in or before 1586. He was educated at the University of St Andrews, where he graduated M. A. on 29 July 1611. Early career In 1615, he ordained as Church of Scotland minister of Mortlach, Banffshire. He translated in 1622 to High Kirk parish in St Giles in Edinburgh, where he successively held two of the four parishes contained within the church: High Kirk and Old Kirk. On 18 July 1622, he was elected by the town council to the charge of the New or High Church; on 14 December, he was elected by the town council to the second charge in the Old Church, or St Giles' Old Church, and admitted on 27 January 1626. He left in 1630 to take position as Bishop of Ross. Maxwell was able to achieve influence at court through his cousin, James Maxwell of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Boyle (archbishop)
Richard Boyle (c. 1574–1645) was an English bishop who became Archbishop of Tuam in the Church of Ireland. He was the second son of Michael Boyle (died 2 February 1597), merchant in London, and his wife Jane (baptised 17 January 1548), daughter and co-heiress of William Peacock. His younger brother was Michael Boyle, bishop of Waterford. Biography Richard Boyle was born around 1574. In 1590, he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge but is recorded to have migrated to St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a BA in 1595 which led to an MA three years later, and was incorporated MA at Oxford on 16 July 1601. He held the vicarage of Finedon in Northamptonshire before embarking on a Church of Ireland ecclesiastical career. He became warden of Youghal on 24 February 1603, dean of Waterford on 10 May 1603 (until 1620), and dean of Tuam in May 1604, Archdeacon of Limerick on 8 May 1605, and bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross on 22 August 1620, these three preferments bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
