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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 138.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 407 and 444.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, pp. 368 and 422.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
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- ↑ 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.
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| Preceded by
Nicholas Comyn
(Church of Ireland) |
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 1551–1578 |
Succeeded by Marmaduke Middleton (Church of Ireland) |
| Preceded by
John Magrath
(Roman Catholic) |
Succeeded by John White (vicar apostolic) (Roman Catholic) |
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