Luke Fagan (b
Lickbla 1659 - d
Dublin
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1733) was an
Irish
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bishop
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in the first third of the 18th century.
Fagan Licabla, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, he was educated at Jesuit run
Irish College
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The Colleges were set up to educate Roma ...
of Seville and was
ordained
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priest
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in 1682. His brother Fr. James Fagan was educated at the Irish College of Alcalá, Spain, and served as its superior.
He served as parish priest in Baldoyle and howth prior to being consecrated
Bishop of Meath
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in 1713 and
translated
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to the
Archbishopric of Dublin in 1729. He died in post on 22 November 1733.
[Luke Fagan](_blank)
by Sean Donlan, Dictionary of Irish Biography.
Controversies
Fagan was involved in a number of controversies while a bishop. He was supposed to have encouraged
Sylvester Lloyd
Sylvester Lloyd, O.F.M. (1680–1747) was of Welsh descent and Protestant origins. In his youth he served in the Williamite army, but later was received into the Catholic Church where he trained as a Franciscan.
He received priesthood education fr ...
OFM to translate the Jansenist leaning Francois Pouget's Montepellier catechism. Influenced by Jansenist sympathiser Fr. Paul Kenny ODC,
['The Ordination in Ireland of Jansenist Clergy from Utrecht, 1715-16: The Role of Fr. Paul Kenny, ODC, of Co. Galway (Part One)' by James Mitchell, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 42 (1989/1990), pp. 2, 2-29 (29 pages).] as Bishop of Meath Fagan, ordained twelve Dutch Jansenist priests including future
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Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
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and Jerome de Bock(Bishop of
Haarlem
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1659 births
1733 deaths
People from County Westmeath
18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland
Roman Catholic archbishops of Dublin
Roman Catholic bishops of Meath
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