Joseph MacRory

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Cardinal MacRory, photo from 1930

Joseph Cardinal MacRory (born March 19, 1861 in Ballygawley , County Tyrone , † October 13, 1945 in Armagh ) was an Irish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Joseph MacRory, one of the ten children of farmer Francis MacRory and his wife Rose Montague, studied at St. Patrick's College in Armagh and at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth . On September 13, 1885, he received the sacrament of ordination . From 1886 to 1887 he was President of Dungannon Academy. MacRory then taught exegesis and theology at Oscott College in Birmingham until he was appointed Professor of Exegesis and Oriental Languages at his alma mater , Maynooth College, in 1889, where he became vice president in 1912. In 1906 MacRory founded the Irish Theological Quarterly with others .

Pope Benedict XV appointed him Bishop of Down and Connor on August 9, 1915 . He was ordained episcopal on November 14th of the same year by Archbishop of Armagh Michael Cardinal Logue ; Co- consecrators were Patrick Joseph O'Donnell , Bishop of Raphoe , and Joseph Hoare , Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois . His episcopal motto was: Fortis in Fide ("Strong in Faith"). During the riots in Belfast from 1920 to 1922 with almost 500 deaths, MacRory became the “protector” of the city's Catholic minority. He took on a political role and helped, for example, with the organization of the boycott of Belfast companies by Irish nationalists. After signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty , MacRory supported the wing of proponents of the treaty in Sinn Féin around Michael Collins .

He succeeded Patrick Joseph O'Donnell after his death as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland on June 22, 1928. On December 16, 1929, Pius XI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in the College of Cardinals . He was present as Apostolic Legate at the laying of the foundation stone of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in 1933 . MacRory proposed to Eoin O'Duffy that an Irish brigade be formed in support of the coup plotters under General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War . As a cardinal he took part in the 1939 conclave , which Pius XII. elected to the Pope. MacRory was a staunch opponent of social injustice, Protestantism and the partition of Ireland.

After a brief illness, the cardinal died at the age of 84 on October 13, 1945 after a heart attack in Ara Coeli, the archiepiscopal residence in Armagh. He is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral Cemetery in the same town.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan F. Parkinson: Belfast's Unholy War. The Troubles of the 1920s. Four Court Press, Dublin 2004, ISBN 1-85182-792-7 , p. 321.
  2. ^ Niall Cunningham: General Eoin O'Duffy: Ireland's Answer to Mussolini. In: The Irish Post , March 2, 2001.
predecessor Office successor
John Tohill Bishop of Down and Connor
1915–1928 		Daniel Mageean
Patrick Joseph Cardinal O'Donnell Archbishop of Armagh
1928–1945 		John Cardinal D'Alton
personal data
SURNAME MacRory, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacRory, Cardinal Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish cardinal and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballygawley (Tyrone)
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1945
Place of death Armagh