James Murphy (bishop)

{{short description|Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher}} {{other people|James Murphy}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use Irish English|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = James Murphy | title = [[Bishop of Clogher]] | image = | alt = | caption = | church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = | diocese = | see = [[Diocese of Clogher (Roman Catholic)|Clogher]] | term = 1801–1824 | predecessor = [[Hugh O'Reilly (Bishop of Clogher)|Hugh O’Reilly]] | successor = [[Edward Kernan]]  | ordination = | ordinated_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | rank =  | birth_date = 1744 | birth_place = Drumshevra, [[Scotstown]], County Monaghan | death_date = 19 November 1824 | death_place = | previous_post = }} '''James Murphy''' (1744–1824) was the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Bishop of Clogher]] from 1801 to 1824.

Born in Drumshevra near [[Scotstown, County Monaghan]], Ireland, he was ordained a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Clogher in 1768. He was appointed the [[Coadjutor Bishop]] of the [[Diocese of Clogher (Roman Catholic)|Diocese of Clogher]] in Ireland in May 1798.

He became the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Bishop of Clogher]] on 3 November 1801, following the death of his predecessor, Hugh O’Reilly.<ref name=HBOBC>{{cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4= Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=Third |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=418}}</ref><ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmurp.html Bishop James Murphy]. ''Catholic Hierarchy''. Retrieved 21 June 2009.</ref> Murphy died in office on 19 November 1824 having served as bishop of his diocese for almost twenty-three years. He was succeeded by Bishop [[Edward Kernan]], who had was appointed his [[Coadjutor Bishop]] on 18 August 1816.

==See also== *[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher]]

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