Eóin Ó Cuileannáin Explained

Bishop Name:	Eóin Ó Cuileannáin, S.T.D.
Dipstyle:	The Most Reverend
Offstyle:	My Lord
Relstyle:	Bishop

Eóin Ó Cuileannáin, S.T.D. (anglicised John O'Cullenan; –1661) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Raphoe from 1625 to 1661.

Ó Cuileannáin was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe by papal brief on .^{[1] [2]} Four years later, he was appointed Bishop of Raphoe on, but was not consecrated until 1629.^{[1] [2]} After having been held in prison in Derry for several years, Bishop Ó Cuileannáin went into exile in March 1653.^{[1] [3] [4]}

Eóin Ó Cuileannáin died in Brussels on 24 March 1661, aged about 78, and was interred in the chapel of the Virgin in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula.^{[1] [2] [4]}

References

• Book: Brady, W. Maziere . William Maziere Brady

. William Maziere Brady . The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . 1876 . Tipografia Della Pace . Rome . 1.

• Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X.
• Book: Moody . T. W. . Martin . F. X. . Byrne . F. J. . Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II . 1984 . Oxford University Press . A New History of Ireland . IX . Oxford . 0-19-821745-5.

Notes and References

1. , Handbook of British Chronology, p. 441.
2. , A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 353.
3. , Handbook of British Chronology, p. 441, fn. 2.
4. , The Episcopal Succession, volume 1, pp. 309–311.