Réamonn Ó Gallchobhair

Réamonn Ó Gallchobhair (aka Redmond O'Gallagher) was an Irish bishop[1] in the mid 16th century.[2]

Ó Gallchobhair was appointed Bishop of Killala by Pope Paul III on 6 November 1545.[3] He was translated to the Roman Catholic see of Derry[4] by Pope Pius V on 22 June 1569.[5]

References
  1. Cal S. P. Rome, 1558-71, No 865.
  2. 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 0-521-56350-X.
  3. Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
  4. Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
  5. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.


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