Dominic de Burgo
Dominic de Burgo (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d'-BER; 1629–1 January 1704) was an Irish Roman Catholic cleric who was Bishop of Elphin (1671–1691).
Dominic de Burgo | |
|---|---|
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Bishop of Elphin |
| In office | 1671–1691 |
| Predecessor | See vacant |
| Successor | See vacant |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1671 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dominic Burke 1629 |
| Died | 1 January 1704 (aged 74–75) Louvain |
| Nationality | Irish |
Early life
Burke or de Burgo, was a native of Craughwell, County Galway, listed by Hugh Fenning as Of the family of Cahirkinvonivy. He was a descendant of the House of Burgh: the surname "de Burgo" is the Latinised form of this name (with the gaelicised form being de Búrca or Búrc).[1]
Career
de Burgo was professed at Athenry in 1648 and studied for six years in Segovia, later living in Pesaro, Treviso and Milan. He was listed as Definitor for Ireland at the General Chapter at Rome in 1670.
He was consecrated as Bishop of Elphin at Ghent in 1671, he was disliked by Oliver Plunkett, who stated he was "extravagant, imprudent in word and deed." He was exiled in 1691, living in poverty with the Franciscans of St. Anthony's, Louvain, where he died on 1 January 1704.[2][3]
References
- Woulfe, Patrick (1923). Irish Names and Surnames (in English and Irish). Dublin: M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd.
- Bishop Dominic Burke, Catholic Hierarchy website, Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- "Burke, Dominic | Dictionary of Irish Biography". dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- History of Galway, James Hardiman, 1820
- Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: a Biographical Register, Hugh Fenning, in Collectanea Hibernica, pp. 27–65 volume 42, 2000
- Burke, Dominic, Tomas S.R. O Floinn, in Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002, pp. 23–24. Cambridge, 2010.