Dominic de Burgo

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic cleric and Bishop of Elphin (c.1622–1704)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

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'''Dominic de Burgo''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|d|ə|'|b|ɜːr}} {{respell|də|BUR}}; {{circa|1622}}–1 January 1704) was an Irish [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] cleric who was [[Bishop of Elphin]] in the late 17th century (1671–1691).

== Early life == Burke or de Burgo, was a native of [[Craughwell]], [[County Galway]], listed by Hugh Fenning as ''Of the family of Cahirkinvonivy.'' He was a descendant of the [[House of Burgh]]: the surname "de Burgo" is the [[Latin]]ised form of this name (with the [[Irish language|gaelicised]] form being [[de Búrca]] or Búrc).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Woulfe |first=Patrick |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/names/d/de-burc-de-burca.php |title=Irish Names and Surnames |publisher=M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd |year=1923 |location=Dublin |language=en, Irish}}</ref>

== Career == de Burgo was professed at [[Athenry]] in 1648 and studied for six years in [[Segovia]], later living in [[Pesaro]], [[Treviso]] and [[Milan]]. He was listed as [[Definitor]] for Ireland at the [[General Chapter]] at [[Rome]] in 1670.

He was consecrated as [[Bishop of Elphin]] at [[Ghent]] in 1671, he was disliked by [[Oliver Plunkett]], who stated he was ''"extravagant, imprudent in word and deed."'' He was exiled in 1691, living in poverty with the Franciscans of St. Anthony's, [[Leuven|Louvain]], where he died on 1 January 1704.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bishop Dominic Burke [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bburked.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}</ref><ref name="dib">{{Cite web |title=Burke, Dominic | work = Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/burke-dominic-a1154 |access-date=2021-12-21 |publisher=Royal Irish Academy | first = Ó Floinn | last = Tomás S. R.| date = October 2009 | doi = 10.3318/dib.001154.v1 }}</ref>

== See also == * [[House of Burgh]], an [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] and [[Hiberno-Norman]] dynasty founded in 1193 * [[Catholic Church in Ireland]]

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===Further reading=== * {{cite book |last=Hardiman |first=James |author-link=James Hardiman |title=History of Galway |year=1820 |language=en}} * {{Citation |last=Fenning |first=Hugh |title=Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: A Biographical Register |journal=[[Collectanea Hibernica]] |volume= 42 |year=2000 |pages=27–65 |language=en}} * {{Citation |last=O Floinn |first=Tomas S.R. |title=Burke, Dominic |journal=Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002 |location=[[Cambridge]] |year=2010 |pages=23–24 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Woulfe |first=Patrick |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/names/d/de-burc-de-burca.php |title=Irish Names and Surnames |publisher=M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd |year=1923 |location=Dublin |language=en, Irish}}

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