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Edward Murphy (bishop)

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Edward Murphy
Archbishop of Dublin
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Dublin
In office 1 September 1724 – 22 December 1728
Predecessor Edmund Byrne
Successor Luke Fagan
Previous post Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1715-1724)
Orders
Ordination 1677
by James Lynch
Consecration 29 December 1715
by Edmund Byrne
Personal details
Born Dominic Edward Murphy
1651
Balrothery, County Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland
Died 22 December 1728 (aged 76–77)
Dublin, County Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland

Dominic Edward Murphy (b Balrothery 1651 - d Dublin 1728) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the first third of the 18th century.[1]

Murphy trained in the Irish College at Salamanca and was ordained a priest in Madrid, in 1677. He was consecrated Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1715[2] and translated to the Archbishopric of Dublin in 1724.[3] He died in post on 22 December 1728.

References

  1. Back to citation Catholic Hierarchy
  2. Back to citation Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  3. Back to citation Brady, W. Maziere (1876a). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.