# Luke Fagan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Luke_Fagan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Luke_Fagan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Fagan > Source revision: 1347803706 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Irish Roman Catholic bishop Luke Fagan Archbishop of Dublin Church Catholic Church Archdiocese Archdiocese of Dublin In office 24 September 1729 – 22 November 1733 Predecessor Edward Murphy Successor John Linegar Previous post Bishop of Meath (1713-1729) Orders Ordination 1682 by James Cusack Consecration 18 February 1714 by Ambrose MacDermott Personal details Born 1659 (1659) Lickbla, County Westmeath, Kingdom of Ireland Died 22 November 1733(1733-11-22) (aged 73–74) Dublin, County Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland **Luke Fagan** (b [Lickbla](/source/Lickbla) 1659 - d [Dublin](/source/Dublin) 1733) was an [Irish](/source/Ireland) [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) [bishop](/source/Bishop) in the first third of the 18th century.[1] Fagan Licabla, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath,[2] he was educated at Jesuit run [Irish College](/source/Irish_College) of Seville and was [ordained](/source/Ordained) [priest](/source/Priest) in 1682. His brother Fr. James Fagan was educated at the Irish College of Alcalá, Spain, and served as its superior. He served as parish priest in Baldoyle and howth prior to being consecrated [Bishop of Meath](/source/Bishop_of_Meath) in 1713[3] and [translated](/source/Translation_(ecclesiastical)) to the [Archbishopric of Dublin](/source/Archbishop_of_Dublin_(Roman_Catholic)) in 1729.[4] He died in post on 22 November 1733.[5] ## Controversies Fagan was involved in a number of controversies while a bishop. He was supposed to have encouraged [Sylvester Lloyd](/source/Sylvester_Lloyd) OFM to translate the Jansenist leaning Francois Pouget's Montepellier catechism. Influenced by Jansenist sympathiser Fr. Paul Kenny ODC,[6] as Bishop of Meath Fagan, ordained twelve Dutch Jansenist priests including future [Archbishop of Utrecht](/source/Archbishop_of_Utrecht), [Petrus Johannes Meindaerts](/source/Petrus_Johannes_Meindaerts) and Jerome de Bock(Bishop of [Haarlem](/source/Haarlem)).[5] ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Catholic Hierarchy](https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfagan.html) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Castlepollard honours Archbishop Luke Fagan](https://www.irishcatholic.com/castlepollard-honours-archbishop-luke-fagan/) by Mags Gargan, [The Irish Catholic](/source/The_Irish_Catholic), June 26, 2014. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). *Handbook of British Chronology* (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-521-56350-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-56350-X). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Brady, W. Maziere](/source/William_Maziere_Brady) (1876a). [*The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875*](https://archive.org/details/a548648301braduoft/page/n369/mode/2up). Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dib_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dib_5-1) [Luke Fagan](https://www.dib.ie/biography/fagan-luke-a2985) by Sean Donlan, Dictionary of Irish Biography. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** 'The Ordination in Ireland of Jansenist Clergy from Utrecht, 1715-16: The Role of Fr. Paul Kenny, ODC, of Co. Galway (Part One)' by James Mitchell, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 42 (1989/1990), pp. 2, 2-29 (29 pages). 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