Thomas Walsh (archbishop of Cashel) explained

Archbishop Name:	Thomas Walsh
Dipstyle:	The Most Reverend
Offstyle:	Your Grace

Thomas Walsh born in Waterford, Ireland in 1580 - died in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in 1654; was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Cashel from 1626 to 1654.^{[1] [2]}

He was appointed the archbishop of the Metropolitan see of Cashel on 27 April 1626 and consecrated in the Spanish Netherlands on 8 July 1626,^{[1] [2]} After the siege of Limerick in 1651, the archbishop was compelled to go into exile.^[1] and ordained at Ordained Bishop S. Isidore, Church, Rome.

Walsh died in exile on 5 May 1654.^{[1] [2]} On 6 May 1654 he was buried with great ceremony in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral next to the Chapel of the Kings and Relics.

Bibliography

• Book: Brady, W. Maziere . William Maziere Brady

. William Maziere Brady . The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . 1876 . Tipografia Della Pace . Rome . 2 .

• Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X .

Notes and References

1. , The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2, pp. 22–25.
2. , Handbook of British Chronology, p. 417.