Maurice Hurley (bishop) explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Maurice Hurley
Bishop of Emly
Church:Catholic Church
Term:1623–1646
Predecessor:See vacant since 1586
Successor:Terence O'Brien (bishop)
Consecration:7 September 1623
Consecrated By:David Rothe
Death Date:1646
Death Place:Emly, Ireland

Maurice Hurley (died 1586) was a 17th-century Roman Catholic prelate.[1]

He served as Bishop of Emly:[2] from his consecration on 7 September 1623[3] until his death in September 1646.[4] There is a stone in the wall at St Ailbe's National School, which was taken from Emly Cathedral when it was demolished in 1827.[5]

Notes and References

  1. https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=CE714ADE489E94CC099F61D2FB856219?articleId=a6496&searchClicked=clicked&searchBy=&browsesearch=yes Dictionary of Irish Biography
  2. Book: Brady, William Maziere . The episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland AD 1400 to 1875 . 2 . 1876 . 655156325 . 35–39.
  3. Book: Moody . T.W. . Martin . F.X. . Byrne . F.J. . A New History of Ireland . 9 Maps, genealogies, lists . A Companion to Irish History, part 2 . Clarendon Press . 1984 . 0-19-821745-5 . 1152598744 . 297–298.
  4. Book: Fryde . Edmund Boleslav . Greenway . D.E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British chronology . Offices of the Royal Historical Society : University College . 1986 . 989682481 . 381.
  5. https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922298/4868201/5019934 Duchas