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Former Archbishops of Armagh

COMHARBAÍ PHÁDRAIG (ST PATRICK AND HIS SUCCESSORS) IN THE SEE OF ARMAGH
  Succeeded
  Cardinal
  Died
1. St Patrick
445		  

 
resigned
2. St Benignus
455       467
3. St Jarlath
467       481
4. Cormac
481       497
5. Dubtach I
497       513
6. Ailid I
 513       526
7. Ailid II
526       536
8. Dubtach II 536       548
9. St David 548       551
10. Feidlimid 551       578
11. St Cairlan 578       588
12. Eochaid 588       598
13. Senach 598
       610
14. Mac Laisre
610
       623
15. St Tommine 623
       661
16. Seghene
661
       688
17. Flann-Febla
688
       715
18. Suibhne
715
       730
19. Congus 730
       750
20. Cele-Peter 750       758
21. Ferdachry 758       768
22. Cu-dinisc 768       deposed
23. Dubdalethe I
778       793
24. Faindelach (depose and re-installed) 793       795
25. Airechtach 793       deposed
26. Connmach

795

       807
27. Torbach 807
       808
28. Nuada 808
       812
29. Flanngus
 812
       resigned
30. Artri 823       833
31. Eoghan
 833       834
32. Forannan 834       852
(dispute)
33. Dermot O Tighernan 834       852
34. Fethgna 852       874
35. Maelcobha 874       deposed
36. Ainmeri 877       879
37. Cathasach I Maelcobha (re-installed) 879
       883
38. Maelbrighte 888
       927
39. Joseph 927       936
40. Mael-Patrick 936       936
41. Cathasach II 936       957
42. Muiredach
957       deposed
43. Dubdalethe II
965       998
44. Muirecan 998       deposed
45. Maelmuire 1001       1020
46. Amalgaid 1020
       1049
47. Dubdalethe III (Cumuscach) 1060-64 1049       1064
48. Mael-Isu 1064       1091
49. Domnald 1 1091       1105
50. Cellach (St. Celsus) 1105       1129
51. Murrough
1129       1134
52. St Malachy
1134       resigned
53. Gelasius
1137       1174
54. Cornelius MacConcaille 1174       1175
55. Gilbert O Caran 1175       1180
56. Thomas O Conor
1181       1201
57. Maelisu O Carroll 1184       1186
58. Eugene MacGillaweer
1206       1216
59. Luke Netterville 1217       1227
60. Donat O Feery
1227       1237
61. Albert Suerbeer, OP 1240       resigned
62. Reginald OP
1247
       1256
63. Abraham O Connellan 1257       1260
64. Patrick O Scanlan, OP
1261       1270
65. Nicholas MacMaelisu
1272       1303
66. John Taaffe
1306       1306
67. Walter Joyce, OP
1307       resigned
68. Roland Joyce, OP
1311       resigned
69. Stephen Seagrave 1323
       1333
70. David Mageraghty 1334
       1346
71. Richard Fitz-Ralph 1346       1360
72. Milo Sweetman
1361       1380
73. John Colton 1381       1404
74. Nicholas Fleming
1404       1416
75. John Swayne 1418       resigned
76. John Prene 1439       1443
77. John Mey 1443       1456
78. John Bole 1457       1470
79. John Foxall, OFM 1471       1475
80. Edmund Connesburgh
1475
       resigned
81. Octavian De Spinellis
1478       1513
82. John Kite 1513       resigned
83. George Cromer 1521       deprived
84. Robert Wauchope 1539       1551
85. George Dowdall 1553       1558
86. Donagh O'Tighe 1560       1562
87. Richard Creagh 1564
       1585
88. Edmund MacGauran 1587       1594
89. Peter Lombard 1601       1625
90. Hugh MacCawell, OFM 1626
       1626
91. Hugh O'Reilly 1628
       1653
92. Edmund O'Reilly 1657       1669
93. St Oliver Plunkett 1669       1681
94. Dominic Maguire, OP 1683       1707
95. Hugh MacMahon 1714       1737
96. Bernard MacMahon 1737       1747
97. Ross McMahon 1747       1748
98. Michael O'Reilly 1749       1758
99. Anthony Blake 1758       1786
100. Richard Reilly 1786       1818
101. Patrick Curtis 1819       1832
102. Thomas Kelly 1832       1835
103. William Crolly 1835       1849
104. Paul Cullen 1849   1866
   translated to Dublin
105. Joseph Dixon 1852       1866
106. Michael Kieran 1866       1869
107. Daniel McGettigan
1870       1887
108. Michael Logue
1887   1893
   1924
109. Patrick O'Donnell
 1924   1925   1927
110. Joseph MacRory
 1928   1929   1945
111. John D'Alton
 1946   1953   1963
112. William Conway
 1963   1965   1977
113. Tomás Ó Fiaich
 1977   1979   1990
114. Cahal B. Daly
 1990   1991   retired 1996
115. Seán Brady 1996   2007    

(Extracted in part from James Stuart's Historical Memoirs of Armagh)
 


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