Bishops and Patrons of St. Colman's Cathedral
Bishops of Cloyne
The Bishop Patrons involved in the construction and funding of St. Colman’s Cathedral were
William Keane, John McCarthy and Robert Browne. These were the men who oversaw the planning, design, funding and construction of the Cathedral.
Ordinaries
St. Colman died 600 560-604
Eochaid, Abbot of Cloyne, died c. 697
Cucaech, Abbot of Cloyne, died 821
Robertus Bonus died 835
Maelcoba oa Faelan, Abbot of Cloyne, died 859
Neill m. Donngaile, Abbot of Cloyne, died 871
Reachtaedh - 884
Fergal mac Finachta, Bishop and Abbot of Cloyne, died 885
Diaghre O Dubarton - 1056
Mac Gelain died 1060
O’Currain - 1075
Hua Carrain, died 1092
O Mulvaen - 1094
Moel Muad mc. meic Clothnai, Abbot of Cloyne, died 1095
Uamhnachan Ua Meictire died 1099 (Unnaghau Ui Mighten - 1099)
The See was suppressed between 1111 - c.1130
Nehemiah O Muireartagh - 1144 (aka Giolla na Naomh Ua Muircheartaigh, monk of the Schottenkloster in Regensburg, died 1149),
Bishop Ua Dubcroin, Abbot of Cloyne died 1159
Dondchad Ua Cineada died 1162
Diarmaid Ua Laighnen died 1162
Bishop Ua Flandachan died 1167
Mathew O’Moncach 1171- 1192
Laurence (Lawrence O’Sullivan 1192-1204) 1204 died 1216
Daniel 1216-1222
Florentius 24 August 1224
Patricius, O. Cist. 1226 resigned 27 April 1235
Daniel (David) Mac Kelley, O.P., appointed October 1237, transferred to Cashel 1238
Alanus O'Sullivan, O.P., appointed 1240, transferred to Lismore 26 October 1246, died 1252/3
Daniel, O.F.M., appointed 12 October 1247, died 1264
Reginaldus, appointed 13 April 1265, died 1273
Alanus O'Lonergan, O.F.M., appointed 1274, died 1283
Nicholas of Effingham, appointed 2 September 1284, died 1320
Maurice O'Sullivan, appointed 2 October 1321, died 1334
John de Cumba 1334-36
Lewis 1336-37
John Bird 1337-51
John Wittock, appointed 8 June 1351, died 7 February 1361
John of Swafham, O. Carm., 1 March 1376, transferred to Bangor 2 July 1376, died 24 June 1398
Richard Wye, O. Carm., appointed 2 July 1376, removed to Dromore 1406, transferred to Sodor 30 May 1410, died 1421/22
Geraldus Caneton, O.S.A., appointed 16 March 1394, died 1412/13
Adam de Payn, O.S.A., appointed 26 July 1413, died 1429
Cormac John O'Daly, O.F.M., appointed 18 September 1444,
Robert Jordan Purcell, appointed 1429- 1467
William, O. Can. St. Aug., appointed 14 July 1458,
Gerald Fitzgerald appointed 2 April 1463, (aka Gerald de Geraldinis)
William Roche, 26 October 1472, resigned, died-1490
James, appointed 1480, died 1486,
John, appointed 1486,
Walter Blach, appointed 26 March 1487,
BLESSED THADEUS McCARTHY, 21 April 1490, died in Ivrea 23 October 1492, cult confirmed by Pope Leo XIII 1893,
Patrick Cantum, O.Cist, Abbot of Castrodei (Fermoy), 15 February 1499,
John Edmund Fitzgerald, appointed 26 June 1499, died c.1521, (Fitzdesmond) 1499 -1520
John Bennet, appointed 28 January 1523, died c. 1536
Dominic Terry 1536-40
Ludovicus Macnamara, O.F.M., appointed 24 September 1540, died in the Roman Curia,
John O Heyden, priest of Elphin, appointed 5 November 1540, (John O Heyden) 1540-45
Nicolaus Laudis, 27 February 1568, died c. 1573 (Landes)
Edmond Tanner, appointed 5 November 1574, died 4 June 1579,
Dermot Mac Creagh, priest of Lismore, 12 October 1580, died c. 1600
The See was vacant from c. 1600-1622.
[James Meade (or Miaghe) designated Vicar Apostolic 3 September 1614]
[Robert Meade or (Miaghe) designated Vicar Apostolic 13 July 1621, died in Naples]
William Terry, 24 January 1622, consecrated by the Apostolic Nuncio in Brusselles 4 April 1623, died 1645
Robert Barry, appointed 8 April 1647, lived in exile in France, died 1662,
The See was vacant from 1647-1676 and ruled by Vicars Apostolic,
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