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4 unusual facts about Archbishop of Dublin


Dunston, Staffordshire

In the Middle Ages, Dunston was subject ecclesiastically to the large and important Collegiate Church of St. Michael at Penkridge, a royal peculiar whose dean was from 1215 the Archbishop of Dublin.

Leon Chechemian

His efforts were supported by William C. Plunket, a baron who was Primate of the Church of Ireland and Archbishop of Dublin.

Merrion Square

The square was leased to the Archdiocese of Dublin by the Pembroke Estate in 1930 to permit the building of a cathedral on the site to replace to the pro-Cathedral.

Sir Edward Littleton, 2nd Baronet

For over three hundred years before the dissolution of the college, its dean had been the current Archbishop of Dublin.


Charles Cobbe

Charles Cobbe (Swarraton, 1686–1765) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765, and as such was Primate of Ireland.

Christopher St Lawrence, 5th Baron Howth

He was on bad terms with the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane, but evidently on good terms with Thomas Cromwell; Ball argues that a letter to Cromwell in 1537 concerning a lawsuit between Howth and the Archbishop of Dublin suggests that Cromwell thought highly of him.

Church of St Mary on the Rock

John Comyn, the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, created a new collegiate church at St Patricks parish church, a collegiate church his successor Henry de Loundres turned into a second cathedral.

Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield

His second wife was Anne Bagenal, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bagenal, sister of Henry Bagenal and widow of Dudley Loftus, son of the Archbishop of Dublin.

O'Toole family

Saint Laurence O'Toole was an archbishop of Glendalough and in 1171, while he was Archbishop of Dublin he took up arms against the Anglo Norman invaders.

Patrick Francis Moran

Over his episcopate, Moran consecrated 14 bishops (he was the principal consecrator of William Walsh, Michael Verdon, Patrick Vincent Dwyer, Armand Olier and also assisted in consecrating Patrick Clune, among others).

St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall

He later became vicar of Halifax, then Bishop of Meath, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Archbishop of Dublin.

Swords Castle

Swords Castle was built as the manorial residence of the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, John Comyn, around 1200 or a little later in Swords, just north of Dublin.

It appears that the Castle was occupied for the next hundred years by successive Archbishops of Dublin until Archbishop Alexander de Bicknor, who built a new Archiepiscopal palace at Tallaght in 1324.

Swords, Dublin

Swords Castle was built as the manorial residence of the 1st Archbishop of Dublin, John Comyn, around 1200 or a little later in Swords, just north of Dublin.

The Angelus

Secretary of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs Leon Ó Broin and Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid had discussed the original idea in the late 1940s.


see also

Charles Agar

Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (1736–1809), Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Archbishop of Dublin, 1801–1809

Fitzsimon

Walter Fitzsimon (died 1511), Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford

Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathredal, who married Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Archbishop of Dublin, Lancelot Bulkeley, and was the father of Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford, Gerald Aungier, and Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford

Ralph of Bristol

Ralph wrote a life of St. Laurence O'Toole, archbishop of Dublin, which appears to be that preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, MS. 652 (792) ii.

William Plunkett

William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828 – 1897), Church of Ireland Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and Archbishop of Dublin