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Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh

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Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh, O.S.A.
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleYour Grace
Religious styleArchbishop

Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh, O.S.A. (Anglicised: Donatus O'Murray; died 1485) was a fifteenth-century Archbishop of Tuam.

An Augustinian Canon, he was the Dean of Tuam before appointed Archbishop of Tuam by Pope Nicholas V on 2 December 1450.[1][2][3] He granted the status of collegiate church to the St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church in Galway in 1484.[4]

Archbishop Ó Muireadhaigh died in office on 17 January 1485.[2][3][5]

Notes

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  1. ^ Cotton 1850, The Province of Connaught, p. 10.
  2. ^ a b Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 375.
  3. ^ a b Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 320.
  4. ^ Cotton 1850, The Province of Connaught, pp. 10–11.
  5. ^ Cotton 1850, The Province of Connaught, p. 11.

References

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  • Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Archbishop of Tuam
1450–1485
Succeeded by