Eugene Matthews (bishop) explained
| Type: | Archbishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
| Eugene Matthews |
| Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland |
| Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
| See: | Armagh |
| Term: | 1611–1623 |
| Successor: | Thomas Fleming |
| Birth Date: | 1574 |
| Death Date: | 1 September 1623 |
| Previous Post: | Bishop of Clogher
(1609–1611) |
Eugene Matthews (1574–1623) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1609 to 1611;[1] and Archbishop of Dublin from 1611 until his death.[2]
In 1623 he was responsible for the foundation of the Pastoral Irish College at Louvain.[3]
See also
Notes and References
- 'Clogherici: A Dictionary of the Catholic Clergy of the Diocese of Clogher (1535–1835)' P. Ó Gallachair; Clogher Record; Vol. 11, No. 3 (1984), pp. 374–386; Published by: Clogher Historical Society DOI: 10.2307/27695896 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27695896
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmatthe.html Catholic Hierarchy
- 'Matthew Teige (died 1652), the Irish Pastoral College of Louvain and the "Lectio Catechistica" (1644)' by Michael Dunne, Archivium Hibernicum, Vol. 67 (2014), pp. 35–75 (41 pages). Published by: Catholic Historical Society of Ireland
