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Edward Murphy (bishop)

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Edward Murphy
Archbishop of Dublin
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Dublin
In office1 September 1724 – 22 December 1728
PredecessorEdmund Byrne
SuccessorLuke Fagan
Previous postBishop of Kildare and Leighlin (1715-1724)
Orders
Ordination1677
by James Lynch
Consecration29 December 1715
by Edmund Byrne
Personal details
BornDominic Edward Murphy
1651 (1651)
Died22 December 1728(1728-12-22) (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.[citation needed]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Catholic Hierarchy
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ Brady, W. Maziere (1876a). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.