Year 1487 (MCDLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
All Hallows College was a college of higher education in Dublin. It was founded in 1842 and was run by the Vincentians from 1892 until 2016. On 23 May 2014, it was announced that it was closing because of declining student enrollment. The sale of the campus in Drumcondra to Dublin City University was announced on 19 June 2015 and completed on 8 April 2016. The college closed on 30 November 2016, becoming the All Hallows Campus of Dublin City University.
Events from the year 1940 in Ireland.
St Peter's College, Wexford is an Irish secondary school and former seminary located in Summerhill, overlooking Wexford town. It is a single-sex school for male pupils. Currently, the school has 785 students enrolled.
Michael Geoffrey St Aubyn Jackson is a Church of Ireland Anglican bishop. Since 2011, he has served as the Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough in the Church of Ireland. He is also the co-chairman of the Porvoo Communion of Anglican and Lutheran churches.
The Diocese of Ossory is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Ireland. It is one of three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin. Currently, it is led by Niall Coll who was appointed on 28 October 2022 and will be ordained bishop on 22 January 2023.
Events from the year 1747 in Ireland.
The Archdiocese of Cape Town is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Cape Town, in the south-western region of South Africa. The principal church of the archdiocese and the location of the archbishop's cathedra is the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flight into Egypt, which also serves as the patron saint for the archdiocese.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Elizabeth is a diocese located in the city of Port Elizabeth in the ecclesiastical province of Cape Town in South Africa.
Patrick McAlister (1826–1895) was an Irish Roman Catholic Prelate and 24th Lord Bishop of Down and Connor.
Éamonn Oliver Walsh is an Irish former Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of Dublin between 1990 and 2019.
The Most Rev. Dr John Healy (1841–1918) was an Irish clergyman of the Catholic Church. He served as Lord Bishop of Clonfert from 1896 to 1903 and as Lord Archbishop of Tuam from 1903 to 1918.
Nicholas Conaty (1820–1886) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
Bishop John Rooney VG, was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest who served as bishop in South Africa.
Thomas Grimley (1821–1871) was an Irish-born priest and educator who served as Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa.
Patrick Raymond Griffith OP, was an Irish Dominican priest, who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa. Rev. Patrick R. Griffith, who, in 1837 was consecrated the titular Bishop of Paleopolis, in the church of St. Andrew, Westland Row, Dublin where he was administrator, and was sent to Cape Town by Gregory XVI as the first Vicar Apostolic of Cape Colony. Dr Griffith became the first Catholic bishop in South Africa when the vicariate was elevated to a bishopric.
Bishop Michael Blake was an Irish Catholic Priest who served as Bishop of Dromore from 1833 to 1860.
William Barry (1872–1929) was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest who served as Archbishop of Hobart, Tasmania.
John Francis Norton (1891-1963) was an Irish born Catholic missionary priest who served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Australia.
James O'Haire was an Irish missionary priest, who was responsible for establishing a Society of African Missions presence in Ireland.
