Table of Episcopal Succession in Ireland, 1558-1613
N.B. Papal appointees in bold.
Perpendicular lines indicate a continued succession; horizontal lines a break in succession.
Armagh
Adam Loftus (appt.
Nov. 1561, cons. Mar.
1563, tr. to Dublin
1567)
Down and Connor
Donat MacTeig (cons.
at Rome, Feb. 1560, d. in
1562).
Eugene Magennis (d. prob. 1563)
James MacGaghwell
(spring 1565, to
Cashel 1567)
*Richard Creagh
(cons. at Rome, Easter.
1564 in d. Oct. 1585)
Thomas Lancaster
(cons. June 1568, d.
Dec. 1583)
John Merriman (cons.
Jan 1569, d July 1571)
John Long (cons. July
1584, d. 1589)
Hugh Allen (cons. early
1573, tr. to Ferns May 1582)
John Garvey (May
1589, d. Mar. 1595)
Edmund MacGauran
(July 1587. killed about
June 1593)
[Meiler Magrath Oct.
1565, deprived 1580)]
Donat O’Gallaher
1580
Cornelius O’Devany
(Apr. 1582, executed
Feb. 1612)
Edward Edgeworth (cons. Oct.
1593, d 1595)
John Charden (cons. May 1596,
d. 1601)
Henry Usher (cons.
July 1595, d. Apr 1613)
Peter Lombard
(July 1601, d. at Rome,
1625)
Robert Humpston (cons. Apr. 1602,
d. 1606)
John Todd (cons. May 1607,
resigns 1611)
[Vacant to 1625]
James Dundas (cons. 1612, d. 1612)
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Table of Episcopal Succession in Ireland, 1558-1613
N.B. Papal appointees in bold.
Perpendicular lines indicate a continued succession; horizontal lines a break in succession.
Cashel
Waterford and Lismore
Roland Baron, or Fitzgerald (d. Oct. 1561)
Patrick Walsh (d. 1578)
[No papal line until
1629]
James MacGaghwell
(appt. Feb. 1567, d.
Apr. 1587)
Marmaduke Middleton
(1579, tr. to St David’s,
Nov. 1582)
Maurice MacGibbon
(June 1567, d. about 1578)
Meiler Magrath (from
Clogher, Feb. 1571, d.
1622)
Meiler Magrath (Nov. 1582
* in commendam)
Dermod O’Hurley
(Sept. 1581, prob. cons.
at Rome, executed 1584)
Thomas Wetherhead (July 1589,
d. Mar. 1592)
Meiler Magrath (again
*in commendam Aug. 1592,
resigns Feb. 1508)
David Kearney
(May 1603, d. in Rome,
1625)
John Lancaster (Feb. 1608,
d. 1619)
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