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Irish Roman Catholic bishop

**Edmund Tanner** (c.1526 – 1579) was an Irish [Jesuit](/source/Jesuit), [Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne](/source/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.[1] After a year at the [Roman College](/source/Roman_College) he was sent to [Dillingen University](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dillingen_University&action=edit&redlink=1) 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.[2]

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](/source/Clonmel), and was thrown into prison; here, as [Holing](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holing&action=edit&redlink=1) 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.[2]

Thereafter he did not venture into his own diocese but as [Commissary Apostolic](/source/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 [Diocese of Ossory](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Ossory), 4 June 1579. [Anthony Bruodin](/source/Anthony_Bruodin) states that he died in [Dublin Castle](/source/Dublin_Castle) after eighteen months of imprisonment and torture.[2] On the other hand, Fennessy in the *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* writes that he died at [Cullahill](/source/Cullahill), where his host was [Barnaby Fitzpatrick](/source/Barnaby_Fitzpatrick%2C_2nd_Baron_Upper_Ossory).[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ODNB_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ODNB_1-1) Fennessy, Ignatius. "Tanner, Edmund". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/68522](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F68522). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CE_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CE_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-CE_2-2) Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1912). ["Edmund Tanner"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Edmund_Tanner). *[Catholic Encyclopedia](/source/Catholic_Encyclopedia)*. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

- [Edmund Hogan](/source/Edmund_Hogan), *Distinguished Irishmen of the 16th Century* (London, 1894)

- [William Maziere Brady](/source/William_Maziere_Brady), *Episcopal Succession in Great Britain and Ireland*(Rome, 1876–1877)

- [Francis Moran](/source/Francis_Moran_(cardinal)), *Spicilegium Ossoriense*, I (Dublin, 1874)

- [Anthony Bruodin](/source/Anthony_Bruodin), *Propugnaculum catholicœ veritatis* (Prague, 1669)

## External links

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1912). "[Edmund Tanner](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Edmund_Tanner)". *[Catholic Encyclopedia](/source/Catholic_Encyclopedia)*. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

v t e Roman Catholic bishops of Cork or Cloyne or of Ross 1540–1693 Cork and Cloyne Lewis Macnamara John O'Heyne Dominic Tirrey Roger Skiddy Nicholas Landes Edmund Tanner Dermot McCraghe James Miagh Robert Miagh William Tirry Robert Barry Peter Creagh Ross Maurice O'Hea Thomas O'Herlahy Bonaventura Naughton Eugene Egan Florence MacCarthy Robert Barry Boetius MacEgan Eugene Egan 1693–1747 Cork and Cloyne† John Sleyne Donagh MacCarthy Thaddeus McCarthy 1747–1850 Cork Richard Walsh John Butler Francis Moylan John Murphy William Delany Cloyne and Ross John O'Brien Matthew McKenna William Coppinger Michael Collins Bartholomew Crotty David Walsh Timothy Murphy 1850–1958 Cork William Delany Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan Daniel Cohalan Cornelius Lucey Cloyne Timothy Murphy William Keane John McCarthy Robert Browne James Roche John Ahern Ross William Keane Micheal O'Hea William Fitzgerald Denis Kelly James Roche Patrick Casey Denis Moynihan Cornelius Lucey 1958–present Cloyne John Ahern John Magee William Crean Cork and Ross Cornelius Lucey Michael Murphy John Buckley Fintan Gavin †During this period the bishops were also apostolic administrators of Ross

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