Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Dominic de Burgo | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Term: | 1671–1691 |
Predecessor: | See vacant |
Successor: | See vacant |
Consecration: | 1671 |
Birth Name: | Dominic Burke |
Birth Date: | c.1622 |
Birth Place: | Craughwell, County Galway, Ireland |
Death Place: | Louvain |
Nationality: | Irish |
Dominic de Burgo (; ; –1 January 1704) was an Irish Roman Catholic cleric who was Bishop of Elphin in the late 17th century (1671–1691).
Burke or de Burgo, was a native of Craughwell, County Galway, listed by Hugh Fenning as Of the family of Cahirkinvonivy. He was a descendant of the House of Burgh: the surname "de Burgo" is the Latinised form of this name (with the gaelicised form being de Búrca or Búrc).[1]
de Burgo was professed at Athenry in 1648 and studied for six years in Segovia, later living in Pesaro, Treviso and Milan. He was listed as Definitor for Ireland at the General Chapter at Rome in 1670.
He was consecrated as Bishop of Elphin at Ghent in 1671, he was disliked by Oliver Plunkett, who stated he was "extravagant, imprudent in word and deed." He was exiled in 1691, living in poverty with the Franciscans of St. Anthony's, Louvain, where he died on 1 January 1704.[2] [3]