The Most Reverend Patrick Duffy (
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
''Pádraig Ó Dubhthaigh'') was appointed as
Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher
The Bishop of Clogher is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clogher in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Following the Reformation, there are now parallel apostolic successions: one of the Church of Ireland and the o ...
on 12 May 1671, twenty-one years after the death of his predecessor,
Heber MacMahon
Heber MacMahon (Irish ''Éimhear Mac Mathúna'') (1600 – 1650) was bishop of Clogher and general in Ulster. He was educated at the Irish college, Douay, and at Louvain, and ordained a Roman Catholic priest 1625. He became bishop of Clogh ...
in 1650. A Franciscan, he was installed as bishop in 1673. He died two years later on 1 August 1675.
Appointments of Bishop Patrick Duffy
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He was succeeded by Bishop Patrick Tyrrell in 1676. Bishop Duffy served in his position in Clogher for about two years.
According to tradition, he was buried in the graveyard attached to the pre-Reformation church at Clontibret, now the site of the Church of Ireland church. The Duffys were the ruling family of Clontibret and supplied the priests to the local parish for centuries before the end of Gaelic rule in Ulster in the early 17th century.
See also
*Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher ( ga, Deoise Chlochair) was formed in 1111 at the Synod of Rathbreasail as the see for the Kingdom of Uí Chremthainn. It is part of the Province of Armagh.
The original cathedral was in the village of Cl ...
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Roman Catholic bishops of Clogher
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
1675 deaths
Year of birth unknown