Primatial see of Ireland . Comprises Louth, most of Armagh and parts of Tyrone, Derry and Meath Saint Patrick built a stone church on Ard-Macha (Hill of Macha, a legendary queen), and made it his see in 445 ; he held a synod here in 448 , one of the still-extant canons of which states that cases of conscience, if too difficult to be disposed of by the Archbishop of Armagh , should be referred to the See of Rome. King Brian Boru captured the city, 1004 , but acknowledged its primacy; he was buried here. The 12th-century cathedral , on the site of the church built by Saint Patrick, has been in Protestant hands since the Reformation. The last historical mention of the Culdees is at Armagh in 1633 , when they were incorporated in the Catholic cathedral chapter by Primate Hugh O’Reilly; to this day, their estates belong to the “vicars choral” of the Protestant cathedral . Notable bishops and archbishops include <\/p>\n
Saint Malachy O’Morgair , patron saint of the diocese (1134 -1137 ) <\/p>\n
Saint Gelasius (1138 to 1174 ) <\/p>\n
Robert Wauchope (1539 -1551 ), who introduced the Jesuits into Ireland and assisted at the Council of Trent <\/p>\n
Peter Lombard (1601 -1625 ) <\/p>\n
Hugh O’Reilly (1628 -1653 ), who took part in the Confederation of Kilkenny, and became generalissimo of the Catholic forces <\/p>\n
Saint Oliver Plunket (1669 -1681 ), martyr <\/p>\n
Hugh MacMahon (1714-1737), who in the penal times, said Mass and administered Confirmation in the open air <\/p>\n
Patrick Curtis (1819-1832), who advanced the cause of Catholic Emancipation <\/p>\n
William Crolly (1835-1849), who began the new cathedral <\/p>\n
Paul Cullen (1849 -1852 ), who became Archbishop of Dublin , Ireland , and was created cardinal <\/p>\n
Michael Logue (1887-1924), first Cardinal -Primate of Armagh, who completed the cathedral , which was consecrated 24 July 1904 <\/p>\n
Suffragan dioceses include <\/p>\n
Ardagh <\/p>\n
Clogher <\/p>\n
Derry <\/p>\n
Down and Connor <\/p>\n
Dromore <\/p>\n
Kilmore <\/p>\n
Meath <\/p>\n
Raphoe <\/p>\n
See also: <\/p>\n
Catholic-Hierarchy.Org <\/p>\n
Archdiocese of Armagh <\/p>\n
patron saints index <\/p>\n
New Catholic Dictionary<\/p>\n
Armagh, Ireland, archdiocese of Primatial see of Ireland . Comprises Louth, most of Armagh and parts of Tyrone, Derry and Meath Saint Patrick built a stone church on Ard-Macha (Hill of Macha, a legendary queen), and made it his see in 445 ; he held a synod here in 448 , one of the still-extant … Continue reading “Armagh, Ireland, archdiocese of”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}