Thomas Price (bishop) explained

Type:Archbishop
Honorific Prefix:The Most Reverend
Thomas Price
Archbishop of Cashel
Church:Church of Ireland
Archdiocese:Cashel
Appointed:30 March 1667
Term:1667-1685
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Predecessor:Thomas Fulwar
Successor:Narcissus Marsh
Consecration:10 March 1661
Consecrated By:James Margetson
Birth Date:1599
Birth Place:London, England
Death Date:4 August 1685
Death Place:Cashel, County Tipperary, Kingdom of Ireland
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Religion:Anglican
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Thomas Price (1599–1685) was the Church of Ireland's Archbishop of Cashel.

Life

Price was born in Wales[1] or possibly London, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1623, M.A. in 1628, and was elected a fellow in 1626. He was ordained by William Bedell, and became archdeacon of Bedell's diocese of Kilmore. He was consecrated bishop of Kildare in Christ Church, Dublin, on 10 March 1661 by the Archbishop of Dublin James Margetson, and was translated to the archbishopric of Cashel on 20 May 1667.[2]

Price followed Bedell on the importance of making the Irish language significant in the established church; he ordained some Irish-speaking ministers, and in 1678 he required service to be read in his cathedral from a folio Gaedhilic prayer-book presented to him by Andrew Sall. He encouraged Sall in his edition of the Irish Testament, and had himself some acquaintance with the Irish language.[2]

Price died at Cashel on 4 August 1685.[2]

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Attribution

Notes and References

  1. https://twitter.com/jdmccafferty/status/1382275977242349571 John McCafferty
  2. Price, Thomas (1599-1685). 46.