Francis Burke (bishop)
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Francis Burke, or de Burgo, or de Burgh (died 1723) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as Archbishop of Tuam from 1713 to 1723.[1][2]
He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Tuam on 22 August 1713. He had been recommended by John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, a kinsman. Two months later, he succeeded as Archbishop of Tuam on 31 October 1713, and consecrated on 4 April 1714. He died in office in August or September 1723.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ a b Archbishop Francis Burke. Catholic Hierarchy website. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ a b Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. Volume 2. Rome: Tipografia della Pace. pp. 146–147.
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