Dermot McGrath

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Dermot McGrath (also Magrath , M'Grath , Creagh , Irish Diarmaid Mag Raith ; * in the 16th century , † in the 17th century ) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and from 1580 Bishop of Cork and Cloyne .

Life

Since the separation of the English Church from Rome by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I , Catholicism was forbidden in British rule as hostile to the king and treason and was sometimes persecuted with blood . In Ireland, the majority of the hierarchy and population opposed Protestantization.

Dermot McGrath was a great-nephew of Richard Creagh , the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh († 1588 in the Tower of London ), and a cousin of Miler Magrath († 1622). This, originally a Franciscan minorite and from 1565 Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor , played a double game in terms of royal church policy , became Anglican Archbishop of Cashel in 1571 , but at the same time protected his " papist " cousin through targeted information.

Dermot McGrath studied theology abroad, returned to Ireland at the time of the second Desmond rebellion and was appointed Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne on October 12, 1580 by the Pope against the decidedly Protestant Bishop Matthew Sheyne († 1582, successor to William Lyon ) . His Counter-Reformation zeal led to the rapid re-Catholicization of Cork, so that in 1603 leading citizens burned Protestant Bibles and worship books and tried to restore Catholic Mass in the city's churches. He used the dissatisfaction of the population caused by the Munster Plantation .

McGrath escaped arrest and execution several times, for example in November 1600 when soldiers of the Earl of Thomond tracked him down in a hiding place in the country, but failed to recognize him because of his tattered clothes and poorness. After that his track is lost. In 1614 the Holy See appointed a Vicar Apostolic to Cork and Cloyne; consequently McGrath had died at that time.

In 1603 the Cork priest Dermot McCarthy came to Bordeaux with 40 companions and founded the Irish College there, supported by Archbishop François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis . The name and time suggest an identity between Dermot McCarthy and Dermot McGrath / Creagh.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Triumphalia chronologica Monasterii Sanctae Crucis in Hibernia: De Cisterciensium Hibernorum viris illustribus, Dublin, 1891 ;
    there (p. 84/85, note 4) also biographical information and historical sources on Dermot McGrath
  2. ↑ Leaving Certificate History Case Study: Meiler Magrath's Clerical Career
  3. ^ The Reformation in Cork
  4. ^ Diocese of Cork and Ross ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bordeaux Guide p. 4 (English)
personal data
SURNAME McGrath, Dermot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creagh, Dermot; Magrath, Dermot; M'Grath, Dermot; M'Craghe, Dermot; Mac Raith, Diarmaid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish clergyman, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century