{"slug": "archbishop-of-armagh", "label": "Archbishop of Armagh", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Armagh", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16146456", "qid": "Q16146456", "description": "archiepiscopal title", "entries": 33, "years": 28, "span": [1111, 1844], "span_label": ["1111 CE", "1844 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 24}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}], "also_known_as": ["Archbishop of Armagh (Roman Catholic)"], "related": [{"slug": "primacy-of-ireland", "label": "Primacy of Ireland", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "oliver-plunkett", "label": "Oliver Plunkett", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anthony-ashley-cooper-1st-earl-of-shaftesbury", "label": "Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tyburn", "label": "Tyburn", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bernard-of-clairvaux", "label": "Bernard of Clairvaux", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edward-iii", "label": "Edward III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "connacht", "label": "Connacht", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1111, "year_label": "1111 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Synod of Rathbreasail, presided over by Cellach Ua Sinaig, Abbot of Armagh is held. Ireland is divided into territorial dioceses (24 sees) under two metropolitans, the Archbishop of Armagh and the Archbishop of Cashel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338984311#Events", "title": "1111 in Ireland", "revid": 1338984311, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1132, "year_label": "1132 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Malachy, Bishop of Down and of Connor, is appointed Archbishop of Armagh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318453468#Events", "title": "1132 in Ireland", "revid": 1318453468, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1134, "year_label": "1134 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Malachy becomes archbishop of Armagh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321069056#Religion", "title": "1134", "revid": 1321069056, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1137, "year_label": "1137 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata becomes Archbishop of Armagh", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367526147#Events", "title": "1137 in Ireland", "revid": 1367526147, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1139, "year_label": "1139 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Early – Malachy, Bishop of Down, begins his first journey to Rome, via Scotland, England, and France, visiting Bernard of Clairvaux. He petitions Pope Innocent II for pallia for the Sees of Armagh and Cashel, and is appointed native legate for Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247814273#Events", "title": "1139 in Ireland", "revid": 1247814273, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1174, "year_label": "1174 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 27", "text": "27 March – Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata, Archbishop of Armagh", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319110205#Deaths", "title": "1174 in Ireland", "revid": 1319110205, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1215, "year_label": "1215 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 11", "text": "11 November – Echdonn Mac Gilla Uidir, Archbishop of Armagh, attends the Fourth Council of the Lateran in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247432771#Events", "title": "1215 in Ireland", "revid": 1247432771, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1216, "year_label": "1216 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "After 11 August – Echdonn Mac Gilla Uidir, Archbishop of Armagh, dies in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247432775#Events", "title": "1216 in Ireland", "revid": 1247432775, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1349, "year_label": "1349 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In the dispute over the Primacy of Ireland, Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh, acting on letters of King Edward III of England specifically allowing him to do so, enters Dublin \"with the cross erect before him\". He is opposed by the prior of Kilmainham on the instructions of Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin, and forced to withdraw to Drogheda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370789467#Events", "title": "1349 in Ireland", "revid": 1370789467, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1353, "year_label": "1353 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In resolution of the dispute between the Archbishop of Armagh (at this time, Richard FitzRalph) and the Archbishop of Dublin (at this time, John de St Paul) over the Primacy of Ireland, Pope Innocent VI of the Avignon Papacy, acting on the advice of the College of Cardinals, rules that \"each of these prelates should be Primate; while, for the distinction of style, the Primate of Armagh should entitle himself Primate of All Ireland, but the Metropolitan of Dublin should subscribe himself Primate of Ireland.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322923435#Events", "title": "1353 in Ireland", "revid": 1322923435, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1360, "year_label": "1360 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367735207#Deaths", "title": "1360 in Ireland", "revid": 1367735207, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1380, "year_label": "1380 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Milo Sweetman, Archbishop of Armagh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303438110#Deaths", "title": "1380 in Ireland", "revid": 1303438110, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1404, "year_label": "1404 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "John Colton, Archbishop of Armagh", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367735944#Deaths", "title": "1404 in Ireland", "revid": 1367735944, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1458, "year_label": "1458 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "John Bole, Archbishop of Armagh hires Aodh son of Eoghan mac Néill Óg O'Neill as a protector", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324328699#Events", "title": "1458 in Ireland", "revid": 1324328699, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "John Bole, Archbishop of Armagh", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350068124#Deaths", "title": "1471 in Ireland", "revid": 1350068124, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 6", "text": "6 December – John Foxal appointed Archbishop of Armagh following death of John Bole", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350068124#Events", "title": "1471 in Ireland", "revid": 1350068124, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1552, "year_label": "1552 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Hugh Goodacre is nominated Archbishop of Armagh by the king, the Catholic George Dowdall being deemed to have vacated the episcopal see.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368480924#Events", "title": "1552 in Ireland", "revid": 1368480924, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1553, "year_label": "1553 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – George Dowdall is reinstated as Archbishop of Armagh, restoring the Roman Catholic succession.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369477949#Events", "title": "1553 in Ireland", "revid": 1369477949, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1554, "year_label": "1554 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – George Dowdall, Archbishop of Armagh, is commissioned to deprive married clergy of their offices.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247429278#Events", "title": "1554 in Ireland", "revid": 1247429278, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1568, "year_label": "1568 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – Thomas Lancaster is consecrated as the Archbishop of Armagh, spiritual leader of the Church of Ireland, succeeding Archbishop Adam Loftus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362476556#April–June", "title": "1568", "revid": 1362476556, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Early 1591–Autumn 1592 – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, travels in Spain and Portugal seeking financial and military assistance for an uprising in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294797948#Events", "title": "1591 in Ireland", "revid": 1294797948, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1592, "year_label": "1592 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December", "text": "December – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh arrives at Drogheda from Bilbao (having escaped attack by pirates) with a promise from King Philip II of Spain to send troops to support a rebellion in Ireland next summer. At Christmas, he holds a conference of seven northern bishops in the Franciscan friary in Donegal which proposes formation of a Catholic confederacy or league among the nobility and clergy of Ulster and Connacht under the leadership of Tyrconnell.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303807582#Events", "title": "1592 in Ireland", "revid": 1303807582, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1593, "year_label": "1593 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 23", "text": "23 June – in a skirmish at Skeanavart in County Roscommon as part of Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh)'s raid into Connacht, Edmund MacGauran (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh) is among those killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428377#Events", "title": "1593 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428377, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Oliver Plunkett is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (consecrated at Ghent 21 November (1 December NS)).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387478#Events", "title": "1669 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387478, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – Oliver Plunkett, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh since 1669, is allowed to return to Ireland for the first time in more than 22 years, after a new policy of tolerance of Catholicism is enacted in England. Plunkett had departed for Rome in 1647 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Executed in 1681 on false charges of plotting an invasion of Ireland, Plunkett is canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1975.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368809725#January–March", "title": "1670", "revid": 1368809725, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, sets foot on Irish soil for the first time in 23 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351866811#Events", "title": "1670 in Ireland", "revid": 1351866811, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "24 March – The Earl of Shaftesbury informs the Privy Council of England that the Roman Catholics of Ireland are about to launch a rebellion, backed by France. The investigation falsely leads to the arrest and ultimate execution of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Oliver Plunkett.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737535#Events", "title": "1680 in England", "revid": 1353737535, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – The Earl of Shaftesbury informs the Privy Council of England that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were about to launch a rebellion, backed by France. The investigation leads to the arrest and ultimate execution of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Oliver Plunkett.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365997201#January–March", "title": "1680", "revid": 1365997201, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 23", "text": "23 July–24 July – trial of Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, at Dundalk for conspiracy in the supposed \"Popish Plot\" ends without indictment and on 24 October he is transferred to London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351866818#Events", "title": "1680 in Ireland", "revid": 1351866818, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted in June of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England; he is canonised in 1975.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#July–September", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 1", "text": "1 July – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England. Catholic intriguer Edward Fitzharris is executed on the same day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737545#Events", "title": "1681 in England", "revid": 1353737545, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1683, "year_label": "1683 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – Dominic Maguire, O.P., is elected as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387181#Events", "title": "1683 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387181, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 15", "text": "15 December – Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is dedicated by Dr William Crolly, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247384548#Events", "title": "1844 in Ireland", "revid": 1247384548, "section": "Events"}}]}