{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=August 2021}} '''Edmund Tanner''' (c.1526 – 1579) was an Irish [[Jesuit]], [[Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne]], Ireland, from 1574 to 1579.
==Life== Tanner's early life is unknown; he left Ireland by 1559, and reached Italy via Spain. In 1565 he was a Catholic priest in Rome, and entered the Society of Jesus.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=68522|first=Ignatius|last=Fennessy|title=Tanner, Edmund}}</ref> After a year at the [[Roman College]] he was sent to [[Dillingen University]] in 1567, and became doctor of divinity. His health, however, failed and he left the Society. In 1574 he was again at Rome, and the See of Cork and Cloyne being vacant, he was appointed to it, 5 November 1574, and was consecrated at Rome.<ref name="CE">{{CathEncy|wstitle=Edmund Tanner|volume=14}}</ref>
In May, 1575, Tanner set out for Ireland with exceptional faculties for his own diocese and for those of Cashel, Dublin, and its suffragan sees in the absence of their respective prelates. Not long after his reaching Ireland he was captured while exercising his functions at [[Clonmel]], and was thrown into prison; here, as [[Holing]] tells, he was visited by a Protestant bishop whom he reconciled to the Church. A few days later he was himself released through the influence of a noble earl.<ref name="CE"/>
Thereafter he did not venture into his own diocese but as [[Commissary Apostolic]] he traversed the other districts assigned him, administering the sacraments and discharging in secret the other duties of his office. After four years he died in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory|Diocese of Ossory]], 4 June 1579. [[Anthony Bruodin]] states that he died in [[Dublin Castle]] after eighteen months of imprisonment and torture.<ref name="CE"/> On the other hand, Fennessy in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' writes that he died at [[Cullahill]], where his host was [[Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron Upper Ossory|Barnaby Fitzpatrick]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} *[[Edmund Hogan]], ''Distinguished Irishmen of the 16th Century'' (London, 1894) *[[William Maziere Brady]], ''Episcopal Succession in Great Britain and Ireland ''(Rome, 1876–1877) *[[Francis Moran (cardinal)|Francis Moran]], {{lang|la|Spicilegium Ossoriense}}, I (Dublin, 1874) *[[Anthony Bruodin]], {{lang|la|Propugnaculum catholicœ veritatis}} (Prague, 1669)
==External links== {{Catholic|wstitle=Edmund Tanner|volume=14}}
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