Bishop of Cork and Cloyne
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The Bishop of Cork and Cloyne was an episcopal
Episcopal polity
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 title which took its name after the city of Cork
Cork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

 and the town of Cloyne
Cloyne
Cloyne is a small town to the south-east of the town of Midleton in eastern County Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland. It is also a see city of the Anglican Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, while also giving its name to a Roman Catholic diocese...

 in southern Ireland
Ireland
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History

The see was formed by the union of the bishoprics of Cork
Bishop of Cork
The Bishop of Cork was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the city of Cork in southern Ireland. The title is now united with other bishoprics...

 and Cloyne
Bishop of Cloyne
The Bishop of Cloyne is an episcopal title which takes its name after the small town of Cloyne in County Cork, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it is a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics....

 in 1429. Following the Reformation
English Reformation
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, there were parallel apostolic succession
Apostolic Succession
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s: one of the Church of Ireland
Church of Ireland
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 and the other of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
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Pre-Reformation bishops

Pre-Reformation Bishops of Cork and Cloyne
From Until Incumbent Notes
1429 1469 Jordan Purcell Appointed 15 June 1429; confirmed 6 January 1432; received possession of temporalities
Temporalities
Temporalities are the secular properties and possessions of the Christian Church. It is most often used to describe those properties that were used to support a bishop or other religious person or establishment. Its opposite description would be the spiritualities.In the Middle Ages, the...

 25 September 1432; resigned after 18 April 1469.
1463 1477 Gerald FitzGerald Appointed before 3 February 1462; died circa 1477.
1472 1490 William Roche Appointed 26 October 1472; resigned before April 1490.
1490 1492 Thaddeus McCarthy
Thaddeus McCarthy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy was an Irish ecclesiastic, who was appointed Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490. His feast day is 25 October.- Early life :...

Bishop-designate of Ross; appointed 21 April 1490; died 24 October 1492; beatified
Beatification
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 by Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII
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 on 14 September 1896; also known as Tadhg Mac Cartaigh.
1499 Patrick Cant, O.Cist. Abbot of Fermoy; appointed 15 February 1499, but annulled 26 June 1499.
1499 1520 John fitzEdmund FitzGerald Appointed 26 June 1499; died before 27 August 1520.
1523 1536 John Bennet Appointed 28 January 1523; died 1536.

Church of Ireland succussion

Church of Ireland Bishops of Cork and Cloyne
From Until Incumbent Notes
1536 1557 Dominic Tirrey Nominated by King Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
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 11 June 1536; letters patent
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 25 September 1536; absolved of schism by Cardinal Pole 27 November 1556; died circa August 1557.
1557 1567 Roger Skiddy Grant of Temporalities
Temporalities
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 2 November 1557 and confirmed by letters patent in 1562; consecrated 30 October 1562; resigned 18 March 1567
1570 1571 Richard Dixon Nominated 17 May and letters patent 6 June 1570; deprived 8 November 1571
1572 1582/83 Matthew Sheyn Nominated 2 January and letters patent 29 May 1572; died 1582 or 1583
In 1583, the see combined with Ross and formed the united see of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross is the Church of Ireland Ordinary of the united Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the Province of Dublin....


Roman Catholic succession

Roman Catholic Bishops of Cork and Cloyne
From Until Incumbent Notes
1540 Lewis Macnamara, O.F.M. Appointed 24 September 1540, but not consecrated
1540 1556 John O'Heyne Appointed 5 November 1540; died before 1556; also administered the Diocese of Elphin
Roman Catholic Diocese of Elphin
The Diocese of Elphin is a Roman Catholic diocese in the western part of Ireland. It is in the Metropolitan Province of Tuam and is subject to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuam. The current Bishop is Dr. Christopher Jones DD who was appointed in 1994.-Geographical remit:The diocese covers parts...

 1545-1556
1556 1557 Dominic Tirrey Appointed as the Church of Ireland bishop by King Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
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 in 1536; absolved of schism by Cardinal Pole 27 November 1556; died circa August 1557
1557 1567 Roger Skiddy Granted by the order of Queen Mary
Mary I of England
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 18 September 1557; consecrated papali ritu 30 October 1561, but was not recognised in Rome; resigned 1567
1568 1574 Nicholas Landes Appointed 27 February 1568; died circa 1574
1574 1579 Edmund Tanner
Edmund Tanner
Edmund Tanner was an Irish Jesuit, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland, from 1574 to 1579.The statement in his brief of appointment that he was born in the ecclesiastical Province of Dublin is all that is known of his early life. His surname was borne by persons of humble station at...

Appointed 5 November 1574; died 4 June 1579
1580 1603 Dermot McCraghe Appointed 12 October 1580; died after 1603
apptd. 1614 James Miagh Appointed vicar apostolic of Cork and Cloyne by papal brief
Papal brief
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 3 September 1614
apptd. 1621 Robert Miagh Appointed vicar apostolic of Cork and Cloyne by papal brief 13 July 1621
1622 1646 William Tirry Appointed 24 January 1622; died March. 1646
1647 1662 Robert Barry Appointed 8 April 1647; died 6 July 1662
1662 1676 See vacant
1676 1693 Peter Creagh Appointed 13 May 1676; translated to Dublin
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 9 March 1693;
From 1693 to 1747, the Roman Catholic bishops were also Apostolic Administrator
Apostolic Administrator
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s of Ross
1693 1712 John Baptist Sleyne, O.S.A. Appointed 13 April 1693; resigned 22 January 1712; died 16 February 1712
1712 1726 Donagh MacCarthy Appointed 16 July 1712; died March. 1726
1727 1747 Thaddeus MacCarthy Appointed 7 April 1727; died 14 August 1747
In 1747, the see was separated into the bishopric of Cork
Bishop of Cork
The Bishop of Cork was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the city of Cork in southern Ireland. The title is now united with other bishoprics...

 and the bishopric of Cloyne and Ross
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