Patrick Walsh (bishop of Waterford and Lismore)
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Patrick Walsh (died 1578) was an Irish prelate who served as the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore from 1551 to 1578.
A graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford, he was appointed the Dean of Waterford on 9 March 1547.[1] Four years later, Walsh was nominated the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore by Edward VI of England on 9 June 1551[2][3] and was consecrated by royal mandate on 23 October 1551.[2][3][4] He retained the deanery of Waterford until he resigned it on 15 June 1566.[1] After the accession of Queen Mary I, Walsh was recognized bishop by the Holy See in 1555/1556.[5][6] But following the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, Walsh supported the crown's reformation legislation in the 1560 Irish Parliament. In a letter of 12 October 1561, the papal legate Fr David Wolfe SJ described all the bishops in Munster as 'adherents of the Queen'.[7] Bishop Walsh was appointed to an ecclesiastical commission for enforcing the royal supremacy in June 1564. Described as a 'crypto-catholic' in 1577, Walsh had custody of the papal Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Edmund Tanner, who described him as 'the heretical bishop of Waterford';[8] and persuaded him to make a 'strictly private' rejection of the Protestant faith.[9]
Bishop Walsh died in 1578,[2][3][4] and was described as a 'confirmed heretic' by the Franciscan Thomas Strange.[10]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 138.
- ^ a b c Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 407 and 444.
- ^ a b c Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, pp. 368 and 422.
- ^ a b Brady 1876, The Episcopal Succession, volume 2, p. 68.
- ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 444.
- ^ Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 369.
- ^ Rigg, J.M. (1916–26). Calendar of state papers relating to English affairs : preserved principally at Rome in the Vatican archives and library. London - H M Stationery Office. p. 49, No. 108.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Bolster, Evelyn (1982). A history of the Diocese of Cork : from the Reformation to the Penal Era. Cork. p. 77.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Anthony M. McCormack and Terry Clavin, "Walsh, Patrick", Dictionary of Irish Biography, (Eds.) James Mcguire and James Quinn, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- ^ Henry A Jeffries, 'The Irish Parliament of 1560', Irish Historical Studies 26 (1989) P. 137.
References[edit]
- Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
- Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
- 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.
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