Eugene Sweeney

{{Short description|Irish prelate}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox bishop styles | bishop name = Eugene Sweeney | dipstyle = The [[Most Reverend]] | offstyle = My Lord | relstyle = Bishop | image = }} '''Eugene Sweeney''' (1592–1669) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[prelate]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] who served as the [[Bishop of Kilmore]] from 1629 to 1669.

A native of [[County Donegal]], he was appointed the [[Bishop (Catholicism)|Bishop]] of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Kilmore|Diocese of Kilmore]] by [[Pope Urban VIII]] on 18 September 1629.<ref name=bsweee>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bsweee|Bishop Eugene Sweeney|3 November 2013}}</ref><ref name=handbook436>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 436.</ref><ref name=nhi9p349>{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, p. 349.</ref>

He died in office on 18 October 1669, aged 77.<ref name=bsweee/><ref name=handbook436/><ref name=nhi9p349/> After his death, the [[Episcopal see|see]] remained vacant for nearly sixty years, during which time it was administered by [[Vicar general|vicars general]] or [[Bishop of Clogher|bishops of Clogher]].

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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{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 }} * {{cite book |editor-last=Moody |editor-first=T. W. |editor2-last=Martin |editor2-first=F. X. |editor3-last=Byrne |editor3-first=F. J. |title=Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II |year=1984 |publisher=Oxford University Press |series=A New History of Ireland |volume=IX |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-821745-5 }} {{refend}}

{{S-start}} {{S-rel|ca}} {{S-bef|before=[[Hugh O'Reilly (Archbishop of Armagh)|Hugh O'Reilly]] (bishop)}} {{S-ttl|title=[[Bishop of Kilmore]] |years=1629–1669}} {{S-aft|after=See vacant,<br />followed by [[Patrick Tyrrell]] (vicar apostolic)}} {{S-end}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland|portal4= History}} {{Roman Catholic bishops of Kilmore}}

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