Godfrey Day

{{short description|Irish Anglican archbishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day | honorific-suffix = D.D. | church = Church of Ireland | diocese = Armagh | title = Archbishop of Armagh<br>Primate of All Ireland | term = 1938 | elected = 27 April 1938 | predecessor = Charles D'Arcy | successor = John Gregg | previous_post = Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin <small>''(1920-1938)''</small> | ordination = 1899 | consecration = 1 November 1920 | consecrated_by = John Gregg | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|05|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|09|26|1874|05|12|df=y}} | death_place = Dublin, Ireland | spouse = Cicely Langrishe | parents = Maurice Day<br>Charlotte Francis Ottley | religion = Anglican | nationality = Irish | alma_mater = Pembroke College, Cambridge }} '''John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day'''<ref>[http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_houses/hist_hse_bishopscourt.html genealogical web site]</ref> (12 May 1874 – 26 September 1938) was a 20th-century Church of Ireland Archbishop.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__armagh_diocesan_registry_archive.pdf |title=Proni |access-date=26 October 2010 |archive-date=16 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216153917/http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__armagh_diocesan_registry_archive.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Biography== Day was born into an ecclesiastical family; his father was Maurice Day, later Bishop of Clogher.<ref>''Who was Who'' 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> Educated at Oakham School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (whence he gained his Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab)),<ref>{{acad|id= DY893JG|name=Day, John Godfrey Fitzmaurice}}</ref> he was ordained deacon in Worcester in 1897 and priest in London in 1899.<ref>''Ordinations. Worcester The Times'' Wednesday, Dec 22, 1897; pg. 3; Issue 35393; col C</ref> He was a Missionary for the Cambridge Mission to Delhi until 1909<ref>”The Clergy List” London, John Phillips, 1900</ref> when he became Vicar of St Ann's Church, Dublin (1913–21).<ref>[http://www.dublinheritage.ie/index.php?db=memorial&location=&page=154 Dublin Heritage] and S.G. Poyntz, ''St. Ann's: the church in the heart of the city'' (Dublin, 1976), p. 98.</ref> He became Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in 1920,<ref>'' New Irish Bishop'' The Times Wednesday, Jun 16, 1920; pg. 18; Issue 42438; col F</ref> holding the post for 18 years. In 1938 he was elected Archbishop of Armagh<ref>The Times, Friday, Jun 10, 1938; pg. 14; Issue 48017; col B ''New Archbishop of Armagh enthroned''</ref> but died within two months of taking office,<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Times | date=27 September 1938 | page=14; col C | issue=48110 | title=The Archbishop Of Armagh Primate Of All Ireland}}</ref> having at some point become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

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==External links== * {{cite TIWW |article=Ossory, Ferns And Leighlin, Bishop of |page=198 }}

{{Bishops of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin}} {{S-start}} {{S-rel}} {{S-bef|before=John Gregg}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin|years=June 1920 – June 1938}} {{S-aft|after=Ford Tichbourne}} {{S-bef|before=Charles D'Arcy}} {{S-ttl|title=Archbishop of Armagh|years=June 1938 – September 1938}} {{S-aft|after= John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg}} {{S-end}} {{Anglican archbishops of Armagh}}

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