The Bishop of Emly was an episcopal

Episcopal polity

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 title which took its name after the village of Emly

Emly

Emly or Emlybeg is a village in South Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Clanwilliam. It is also an Ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly....

 in County Tipperary

County Tipperary

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, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. The title was used by the Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland

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 until 1569 and by the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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 until 1718. In both successions the bishopric was united to the archbishopric of Cashel

Archbishop of Cashel

The Archbishop of Cashel is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The title is still in use in the Roman Catholic Church, but in the Church of Ireland it was downgraded to a bishopric in 1838....

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Pre-Reformation bishops

• Diarmait Ua Flainn Chua (died 1114)
• Gilla in Choimded Ua hArdmaíl (bef.1152– ? )
• Máel Ísa Ua Laigenáin (died 1163)
• Ua Meic Stia (bef.1127–1173)
• Ragnall Ua Flainn Chua (died 1197)
• ? Máel Ísu (bef.1205–bef.1209)
• William (c.1209–depr.1210)
• Henry (1212–1227)
• John Collingham (1228–1236)
• Daniel (1238)
• Christianus (1238–1249)
• Gilbertus (1251–1265)
• Laurentius (1266)
• Florentius Ó hAirt (1266–1272)
• Matthew MacGormáin (1272–1275)
• David Ó Cossaig (1275–1281)
• William de Clifford (1286–1306)
• Thomas Cantock
  Thomas Cantock
  Thomas Cantock was an Irish cleric and judge who held the offices of Bishop of Emly and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.O'Flanagan, writing in 1870, complains that a biographer of Cantock is faced with an almost complete lack of information. Not a great deal more is known today...
  
   (1306–1309)

• William Roughhead (1309–1335)
• Richard le Walleys (1335–1356)
• John Esmond (1356–1362)
• David Penlyn (1362– ? )
• William (1363–1405)
• Nicholas Ball (1405–1421)
• John Rishberry (1421– ? )
• Robert Windell (1423–depr.1425)
• Thomas de Burgo (1425–1444)
• Robert Portland (1429)
• Cornelius Ó Cuinnlis (1444–1448)
• Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh
  Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh
  Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh was an Irish churchman who became successively bishop of Clonfert , Emly and Elphin .-Biography:Conchobair was a brother of Seán Ó Maolalaidh...
  
   (1448–1449)
• William Ó hEidheáin (1449–1475)
• Pilib Ó Cathail (1475–1494)
• Donatus (1494–res.1498)
• Cinnéidigh Mac Briain (1498–1505)
• Tomás Ó hUrthaile (1505–1542)

Post-Reformation bishops

Following the Reformation

English Reformation

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, there were parallel apostolic succession

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s: one of the Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland

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 and the other of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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Church of Ireland succession

• Angus O'Hernan (1542–1553)

• Raymond de Burgh (1553–1562)

In 1569, the Church of Ireland see

Episcopal See

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 was united to Cashel

Archbishop of Cashel

The Archbishop of Cashel is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The title is still in use in the Roman Catholic Church, but in the Church of Ireland it was downgraded to a bishopric in 1838....

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Roman Catholic succession

• (See vacant, 1542–1551)
• Raymond de Burgh (1551–1562)
• Maurice O'Brien (1567–c.1586)
• (See vacant, c.1586–1620)
• Maurice O'Hurley (1620–1646)

• Terence Albert O'Brien
  Terence Albert O'Brien
  Terence Albert O'Brien was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop of Emly. He was beatified among the Seventeen Irish Martyrs by Pope John Paul II on September 27, 1992.-Biography:...
  
   (1647–1651)
• (William Burghat, vicar apostolic, 1657–1669)
• (See vacant, 1669–1695)
• James Stritch (1695)
• (See vacant, 1695–1718)

In 1718, the Roman Catholic see

Episcopal See

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 was united to Cashel

Archbishop of Cashel

The Archbishop of Cashel is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The title is still in use in the Roman Catholic Church, but in the Church of Ireland it was downgraded to a bishopric in 1838....

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