Christopher Bodkin Explained

Archbishop Name:	Christopher Bodkin
Dipstyle:	The Most Reverend
Offstyle:	Your Grace or Archbishop

Christopher Bodkin (or Bodkyn or Bodekin) (died 1572) was an Irish prelate, who was the Archbishop of Tuam, and Bishop of Kilmacduagh during the Irish Reformation.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

He was appointed Bishop of Kilmacduagh on 3 September 1533 and consecrated on 4 November 1533. Four years later, he accepted Royal Supremacy and was appointed Archbishop of Tuam by King Henry VIII on 15 February 1537, but continued to hold the bishopric of Kilmacduagh. He swore the Oath of Supremacy at Clonmel early in 1539.^[3]

In opposition to Bodkin, the papacy appointed Arthur O'Friel to Tuam and Cornelius O'Dea to Kilmacduagh, but they failed to get possession of the sees. On the accession of Queen Mary I, Bodkin was absolved from schism by Cardinal Pole, and appointed apostolic administrator of Tuam and Kilmacduagh on 7 October 1555.

On the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, he retained possession of both sees. He took the Oath of Supremacy, recognizing the Queen as Supreme Governor of the Church, in 1560 ^[4] He died in office in 1572.^{[1] [2]}

References

• Dictionary of Irish Biography, p. 625, Cambridge, 2010.

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Notes and References

1. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 362, 398, 406, 435 and 443.
2. Book: Cotton, Henry . The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland . Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae . 4, The Province of Connaught . 1850 . Hodges and Smith . Dublin . 12 and 201.
3. Book: Bagwell, Richard . Richard Bagwell

   . Richard Bagwell . 1885–90 . Ireland Under the Tudors . 1 . 305 .

4. Book: Tanner, Marcus . Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000 . registration . Yale University Press . 86 . 9780300092813 . 2003 . (Google Books listing)