James Joseph MacNamee

{{Short description|Roman-catholic bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = James Joseph MacNamee | title = Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise | church = [[Catholic Church]] | diocese = [[Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]] | term = 20 June 1927 – 24 April 1966 | predecessor = [[Joseph Hoare (bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise)|Joseph Hoare]] | successor = [[Cahal Daly]] | ordination = 17 June 1900 | ordained_by = [[William Walsh (archbishop of Dublin)|William Walsh]]<ref name=CatHie>{{cite web|url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmacn.html|title=Bishop James Joseph MacNamee|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|access-date=2026-04-03}}</ref> | consecration = 31 July 1927 | consecrated_by = [[Patrick O'Donnell (cardinal)|Patrick O'Donnell]] <ref name=CatHie /> | birth_date = {{birth date|1876|12|11|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Fintona]], [[County Tyrone]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|4|24|1876|12|11|df=y}} | education = [[St Macartan's College]]<br />[[St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth|St Patrick's College, Maynooth]] }}

'''James Joseph MacNamee''' was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop in the 20th Century.<ref>[http://www.askaboutireland.ie/aai-files/assets/libraries/longford-county-library/reading-room/physical-landscape/article-about-st-mels-cathedral---james-joseph-mcnamee.pdf Ask about Ireland]</ref>

McNamee was born at [[Fintona]] on 11 December 1876. He was educated at [[St Macartan's College|St Macartan's College, Monaghan]] and [[St Patrick's College, Maynooth]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Canning | first= Bernard| author-link= | title= Bishops of Ireland 1870-1987| location= [[Ballyshannon]] | publisher= [[Donegal Democrat]]| pages=73| year=1988 | isbn= 1870963008}}</ref> After [[Curate|curacies]] at [[Clones, County Monaghan|Clones]] and [[Monaghan]] he was Administrator of Monaghan then Parish Priest at Clones.

MacNamee was appointed [[Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]] on 20 June 1927<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and consecrated on 31 July that year.<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> He died on 24 April 1966 and was succeeded by [[Cahal Daly]], later Archbishop of Armagh.<ref>[https://www.armagharchdiocese.org/july-15th-40th-anniversary-as-bishop/ Armagh Archdiocese]</ref>

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{{S-start}} {{S-rel|ca}} {{Succession box | before = [[Joseph Hoare (bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise)|Joseph Hoare]] | title = [[Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]] | years = 1927–1966 | after = [[Cahal Daly]] }} {{S-end}}

{{Roman Catholic Bishops of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland}}

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