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Roman Catholic bishop of Raphoe
Eóin Ó Cuileannáin ,
S.T.D. (anglicised John O'Cullenan;
c. 1583 –1661) was an
Irish
Roman Catholic prelate who served as the
Bishop of Raphoe from 1625 to 1661.
Ó Cuileannáin was appointed
Vicar Apostolic of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe by
papal brief on 1 December [
O.S. 21 November] 1621.
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[2] Four years later, he was appointed
Bishop of Raphoe on 9 June [
O.S. 30 May] 1625, but was not
consecrated until 1629.
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[2]
[3] After having been held in prison in
Derry for several years, Bishop Ó Cuileannáin went into exile in March 1653.
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Eóin Ó Cuileannáin died in
Brussels on 24 March 1661, aged about 78, and was interred in the chapel of the Virgin in the
Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula .
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Notes
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Fryde et al. 1986 , Handbook of British Chronology , p. 441.
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Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984 , A New History of Ireland , volume IX, p. 353.
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"Bishop John O'Cullenan" .
Catholic-Hierarchy.org . David M. Cheney. Retrieved 10 February 2014 .
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Fryde et al. 1986 , Handbook of British Chronology , p. 441, fn. 2.
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Brady 1876 , The Episcopal Succession , volume 1, pp. 309–311.
References
Brady, W. Maziere (1876).
The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
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 .
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II . A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-821745-5 .