Anthony MacGeoghegan

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic Friar Minor and bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} '''Anthony MacGeoghegan''', [[Order of Friars Minor|OFM]] (died 1664) was a 17th-century Irish [[Roman Catholic]] [[Order of Friars Minor|Friar Minor]] and bishop.<ref>"A New History of Ireland" [[T. W. Moody]], [[F. X. Martin]], [[Francis John Byrne|F.J. Byrne]] and [[Art Cosgrove|Cosgrove, A]]: [[Oxford]], [[Oxford University Press|OUP]], 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}</ref>

After he entered the Order, MacGeoghegan was educated at the [[College of the Immaculate Conception, Prague|College of the Immaculate Conception]] operated in [[Prague]] by the friars for their Irish members due to the restrictions on the Catholic faith in their homeland during that period.

MacGeoghegan was appointed as [[Bishop of Clonmacnoise]] by [[Pope Innocent X]] in 1647, for which he was [[consecration#Christianity|consecrated]] by [[Giovanni Battista Rinuccini]], the [[Archbishop of Fermo]] and papal [[nuncio]] to Ireland, on 2 April 1648.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmgeoga.html|work=Catholic Hierarchy|title=Bishop Anthony MacGeoghegan, O.F.M.}}</ref> He served in that office until 1657, when he was [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|translated]] to the office of [[Bishop of Meath]], where he remained until 1661.<ref>Annette Kehnel, ''Clonmacnois the Church and Lands of St. Ciarán:Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th- to 16th Century)'', 1995, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers – State University, USA. {{ISBN|3-8258-3442-5}}</ref>

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