biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–78)
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| biography:
| Roman Catholic clergyman, born in Prospect, Co Kildare, E Ireland. He studied in Rome, was ordained in 1829, and was successively vice-rector and rector of the Irish College in Rome, and rector of the College of Propaganda. Consecrated Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland (1850), he helped to found the Catholic University in 1854, and Clonliffe College (the Dublin diocesan seminary) in 1859. He was created a cardinal priest in 1866, the first Irishman to attain that dignity. |
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