Thomas Croke
Thomas William Croke (born May 24, 1824 in Ballyclough, County Cork , Ireland , † July 22, 1902 in Thurles , County Tipperary , Ireland) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly in Ireland. The largest sports stadium in Ireland, Croke Park in Dublin , also the seat of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), is named after him.
Life
Croke was born in 1824 in Ballyclough, a small village near Mallow . He received his education in Charleville in County Cork and at the Irish College in Paris . In 1846 he was ordained a priest. According to the Irish radical William O'Brien, Croke is said to have fought on the barricades during the Revolution of 1848 in Paris. He then returned to Ireland and in 1858 became chairman of St. Colman's College in Fermoy . In 1865 he became parish priest of Doneraile. At the first Vatican council of 1870 he took part as a theologian in the entourage of the Bishop of Cloyne. In the same year he was appointed Bishop of Auckland , New Zealand. Croke became a member of the Irish hierarchy in 1875 when he assumed the office of Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, one of Ireland's four archbishoprics.
On political issues, Croke was a proponent of Irish nationalism. He supported the Land League and the chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party , Charles Stewart Parnell . The break with Parnell came after his affair with Katharine O'Shea . Croke also joined Father Matthew's anti-alcohol movement and the Gaelic League when it was founded in 1893. Within the Catholic Church he was a supporter of Gallicanism and was in opposition to the ultramontanism of the Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Paul Cullen .
Because of his nationalist commitment, he was viewed with more suspicion by the British government and its deputies in Dublin than the other, less politically oriented, Irish bishops. After the scandal surrounding Parnell's affair with Katharine O'Shea, the wife of his party friend William O'Shea, Archbishop Croke withdrew from active participation in politics.
Croke died on July 22, 1902, at the age of 78 in Thurles, County Tipperary.
literature
- Christian Schröder: Thomas Croke. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 297-301.
Web links
- Entry on Thomas William Croke on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on November 1, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Croke, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Croke, Thomas William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly in Ireland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ballyclough , County Cork , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1902 |
| Place of death | Thurles , County Tipperary |