| Type: | bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
| Francis McCormack | |
| Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Kilfenora | |
| Diocese: | Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora |
| Enthroned: | 26 April 1887 |
| Ended: | 21 October 1908 |
| Native Name: | Proinsias Mac Cormaic |
| Native Name Lang: | ga |
| Predecessor: | Thomas Joseph Carr |
| Successor: | Thomas O'Dea |
| Ordination: | 10 June 1862 (Priest) |
| Consecration: | 21 November 1871 (Bishop) |
| Other Post: | Coadjutor Bishop of Achonry 1871–75 Bishop of Achonry 1875–87 Titular Bishop of Claudiopolis in Isauria Titular Archbishop of Nisibin |
| Birth Name: | Francis McCormack |
| Birth Date: | 8 April 1833 |
| Birth Place: | Ballintubber, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Buried: | Crypt of Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Alma Mater: | Maynooth College |
Francis McCormack (8 April 1833 – 14 November 1909) was an Irish Catholic bishop of the 19th and 20th century.
Francis Joseph McCormack was born in Ballintubber in 1833. He studied for the priesthood in Maynooth College.[1] His nephew, Captain Patrick McCormack, was one of the Cairo Gang assassinated on Bloody Sunday (1920).[2] Dr McCormack was also a cousin of the founder of the Land League, Michael Davitt.
McCormack was ordained a priest in 1862.
McCormack was consecrated a bishop by John McEvilly, Archbishop of Tuam. He was Bishop of Achonry 1871 to 1887. In 1879 a minor famine saw 300 people beg food from the bishop at Christmas. He wrote a letter to the Land League, contrasting the vast sums spent on the Anglo-Zulu War and Second Anglo-Afghan War with the minimal amount the government spent on famine relief.[3] [4] He also condemned "assisted emigration," whereby landlords paid the fare to get rid of unwanted tenants.[5]
In 1887 McCormack was translated to the Diocese of Galway and Kilmacduagh where he served until he retired due to ill health in 1908. He died in 1909.[6] [7] He is buried in Galway Cathedral crypt, his papers are stored in the Diocesan archive.