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Primacy of Ireland

Christian church office in Ireland

24 dated entries naming Primacy of Ireland, drawn from 22 separate years between 1335 CE and 1940 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Primate of All Ireland, Primate of Ireland in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

  • 1335Alexander de Bicknor, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Irelandsource
  • 1349In 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.source
  • 1353In 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."source
  • 1377Robert Wikeford, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.source

15th century

  • 1401Thomas Cranley, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Irelandsource
  • 1423Richard Talbot, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Irelandsource

16th century

  • 1512William Rokeby, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Irelandsource
  • 1513William Rokeby, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.source
  • 1522Hugh Inge, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.source
  • 1528John Alen, Primate of Ireland appointed Lord Chancellor of Irelandsource
  • 1581January 4 – James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published the Ussher chronology purporting to time and date creation (died 1656).source

17th century

  • 1663August 20 – James Margetson is translated from Archbishop of Dublin to Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and Primate of All Ireland.source
  • 1669January 11 – Peter Talbot is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (consecrated at Antwerp 29 April (9 May New Style)).source
  • 1669July 9 – Oliver Plunkett is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (consecrated at Ghent 21 November (1 December NS)).source
  • 1670March 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.source
  • 1673June – Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, goes into exile.source
  • 167811 October – Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, having returned to Ireland in May, is arrested near Maynooth on the orders of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for supposed complicity in the "Popish Plot" and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.source
  • 168023 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.source
  • 1681July 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.source
  • 16811 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.source
  • 1683December 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.source

19th century

  • 184415 December – Saint Malachy's Church, Belfast is dedicated by Dr William Crolly, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.source
  • 18852 August – William Walsh is consecrated as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, an office he will hold until his death in 1921.source

20th century

  • 194027 December – John McQuaid was consecrated as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, an office he held for more than thirty years.source

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