John MacSeonin Burke explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Most Reverend
John de Burgo
Honorific Suffix:OSA
Native Name:Seán MacSeóinín de Búrca
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Archbishop of Tuam
Term:1441–1450
Predecessor:Tomás mac Muircheartaigh Ó Ceallaigh
Successor:Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh
Birth Name:John MacSeonin Burke
Death Date:1450
Nationality:Irish

John MacSeonin Burke or John de Burgo, O.S.A. (Irish: Seán MacSeóinín de Búrca; died 1450) was an Irish Roman Catholic cleric who was Archbishop of Tuam (1441–1450).

Career

Burke was appointed Archbishop of Tuam in 1441.[1]

Burke was a member of the Mac Seonin branch of the Bourkes of County Mayo, later anglicised as Jennings. Another notable member of this family was General Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine (1751–99).

The History of the Popes comments:

Some of the annalists call him "the Archbishop of Conaught, the son of the Parson, son of Mac Johnin Burke." He died in Galway in the year 1450.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: O'Donovan . John . John O'Donovan (scholar) . Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes . 11 March 2019 . 1st . 2016 . 5 . 1851 .