Francis Burke (bishop)

Styles of
Francis Burke
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Grace or Archbishop

Francis Burke, or de Burgo, or de Burgh (died 1723) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as Archbishop of Tuam from 1713 to 1723.[1][2]

He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Tuam on 22 August 1713. He had been recommended by John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, a kinsman. Two months later, he succeeded as Archbishop of Tuam on 31 October 1713, and consecrated on 4 April 1714. He died in office in August or September 1723.[1][2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Archbishop Francis Burke. Catholic Hierarchy website. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  3. ↑ Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Volume 2. Rome: Tipografia della Pace. pp. 146–147.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
James Lynch		 Archbishop of Tuam
1713–1723 		Succeeded by
Bernard O'Gara


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