Thomas Walsh (archbishop of Cashel)

Styles of
Thomas Walsh
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Grace
Religious style Archbishop

Thomas Walsh (died 1654) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Cashel from 1626 to 1654.[1][2][3]

He was appointed the archbishop of the Metropolitan see of Cashel on 27 April 1626 and consecrated in the Spanish Netherlands on 8 July 1626.[1][2][3] After the siege of Limerick in 1651, the archbishop was compelled to go into exile.[2]

Walsh died in exile on 5 May 1654.[1][2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Archbishop Thomas Walsh". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Brady 1876, The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2, pp. 22–25.
  3. 1 2 3 Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 417.

Bibliography

  • Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Volume 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
  • 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.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
David Kearney
(archbishop)		 Archbishop of Cashel
1626–1654		 Succeeded by
John de Burgo
(vicar apostolic)



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