Philip Crolly was appointed Vicar Apostolic [1] to administer the See of Clogher [2] by Pope Innocent X on 15 November 1651 and re-appointed on 17 April 1657 by Pope Alexander VII. [3]
The Bishop of Clogher is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clogher in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Following the Reformation, there are now parallel apostolic successions: one of the Church of Ireland and the other of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Bishop of Clonfert is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clonfert in County Galway, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.
James Murphy (1744–1824) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1801 to 1824.
Daniel O’Reilly (1700–1778) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1747 to 1778.
Patrick Tyrrell, O.F.M. was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Clogher (1676–1689), Vicar Apostolic of Kilmore (1678–1689), and Bishop of Meath (1689–1692).
Heber MacMahon was bishop of Clogher and general in Ulster. He was educated at the Irish college, Douay, and at Louvain, and ordained a Roman Catholic priest 1625. He became bishop of Clogher in 1643 and a leader among the confederate Catholics. As a general of the Ulster army he fought Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Scarrifholis in 1650. He was defeated, taken prisoner and executed the same year.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora is a Roman Catholic diocese in the west of Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Tuam and is subject to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuam. The deanery of Kilfenora, previously a diocese in its own right, lies in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel. The ordinary is Bishop Michael Duignan who was appointed on 11 February 2022.
John Roan,D.D. was a Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe.
John Sterne (1660–1745) was an Irish churchman, bishop of Dromore from 1713 and then bishop of Clogher from 1717.
Patrick Lyons (1875–1949) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1937 to 1949.
Bernard Finegan was an Irish prelate who briefly served in the Roman Catholic Church as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1886 to 1887. He was educated a Kilmore Academy.
Eugene Sweeney (1592–1669) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1629 to 1669.
Edward Young was an English Anglican priest in the eighteenth century: his senior posts were in Ireland.
Hugh O'Carolan was Bishop of Clogher from 1537 to 1557.
Andrew Allen was a nineteenth century Irish Anglican priest.
Johannes Ó Corcráin,OSB was a bishop in Ireland during the 14th century. Appointed by Pope Gregory XI in 1373, he held the See until 1389.
Eugene Matthews (1574-1623) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher from 1609 to 1611; and Archbishop of Dublin from 1611 until his death.
Patrick Quinn was appointed Vicar Apostolic to administer the See of Clogher by Pope Gregory XV on 30 July 1622.
Cornelius MacArdel was Bishop of Clogher from 1560 to 1568.
Raymund MacMahon was Bishop of Clogher from his appointment on 27 August 1546 until his death in 1566.