Michael Murphy (bishop)

{{Short description|Irish Catholic bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2021}} '''Michael Murphy''' (b. [[Kilmichael, County Cork]] 18 February 1924; d. [[Cork (city)|Cork]] 7 October 1996) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Catholic]] [[bishop]] in the last quarter of the 20th Century.<ref>[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmurphymi.html Catholic Hierarchy]</ref>

Before becoming a priest Murphy was a member of the team that won the [[1941 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40147868.html | publisher=EchoLive.ie | title=The fascinating history of Cork’s bishops | date=28 June 2019 | accessdate=10 July 2021 }}</ref> Murphy was ordained priest on 19 June 1949.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090417225635/http://www.corkandross.org/bishopsHistorical.jsp Diocese of Cork and Ross]</ref> He served in [[Peru]] then as head teacher of [[St Finbarr's College, Farranferris]].<ref name="walsh">Walsh, Fr. J. C.: Farranferris: The Heritage of St Finbarr 1887-1987. Tower Books, Cork 1987.</ref> He was appointed [[Coadjutor Bishop]] [[Bishop of Cork and Ross|of Cork and Ross]] on 1 April 1976 and was consecrated its diocesan on 23 August 1980. He died in post sixteen years later.<ref name=HBOBC>{{cite book |author1=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 |pages=385–386}}</ref>

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{{Cork Minor Hurling Team 1941}} {{Roman Catholic bishops of Cork and Ross}} {{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Ireland |portal4= Peru|portal5= Sports}}

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