Edward Murphy (bishop)

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic bishop}}{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | name = Edward Murphy | birth_name = Dominic Edward Murphy | title = Archbishop of Dublin | church = [[Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin|Archdiocese of Dublin]] | term = 1 September 1724 – 22 December 1728 | predecessor = [[Edmund Byrne (bishop)|Edmund Byrne]] | successor = [[Luke Fagan]] | previous_post = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin|Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin]] <small>(1715-1724)</small> | ordination = 1677 | ordained_by = [[James Lynch (archbishop of Tuam)|James Lynch]] | consecration = 29 December 1715 | consecrated_by = Edmund Byrne | birth_date = {{birth year|1651}} | birth_place = [[Balrothery]], [[County Dublin]], [[Kingdom of Ireland]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1728|12|22|1651|df=y}} | death_place = [[Dublin]], County Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland }} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=December 2021}} '''Dominic Edward Murphy''' (b [[Balrothery]] 1651 - d [[Dublin]] 1728) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] [[Roman Catholic]] [[bishop]] in the first third of the 18th century.<ref>[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmurphye.html Catholic Hierarchy]</ref>

Murphy trained in the [[Irish College at Salamanca]] and was [[ordained]] a [[priest]] in Madrid, in 1677. He was consecrated [[Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin]] in 1715<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}</ref> and [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|translated]] to the [[Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic)|Archbishopric of Dublin]] in 1724.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brady |first=W. Maziere |author-link=William Maziere Brady |title=The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 |url=https://archive.org/details/a548648301braduoft/page/n369/mode/2up|year=1876a |publisher=Tipografia Della Pace |location=Rome |volume=1 }}</ref> He died in post on 22 December 1728.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

==Notes== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box|title=[[Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin]]|before=[[Episcopal see|See vacant]]|after=[[Bernard Dunne (bishop)|Bernard Dunne]] |years=1715–1724}} {{succession box|title=[[Archbishop of Dublin]]|before=[[Edmund Byrne (bishop)|Edmund Byrne]]|after=[[Luke Fagan]] |years=1724–1728}} {{s-end}}

{{Roman Catholic Bishops of Kildare and Leighlin}} {{Roman Catholic Archbishops of Dublin}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland|portal4=History}}

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