Pre-Reformation Archbishops
| Pre-Reformation Archbishops of Armagh | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Ordinary | Notes. |
| 1105 | 1129 | Cellach of Armagh Saint Cellach; Irish: Cellach mac Áeda meic Máel Ísu |
Abbot of Armagh; consecrated bishop on 23 September 1105; elevated to archbishop in 1106; died 1 April 1129; also known as Saint Ceallach, and Celsus. |
| 1129 | 1132/34 | See vacant. | |
| 1132/34 | 1136/37 | Saint Malachy Irish: Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair |
Became bishop of Down and Connor in 1124; elected and consecrated Archbishop of Armagh in 1132, but was not installed until 1134; resigned the sees of Armagh and Connor in 1136 or 1137, but retained Down until his death on 2 November 1148; canonized by Pope Clement III on 6 July 1199; also known as Malachy O'Morgair, Malachy O' More, and Malachias. |
| 1137 | 1174 | Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata | Elected and consecrated 1137; died 27 March 1174; also known as Gelasius. |
| 1174 | 1175 | Cornelius of Armagh Irish: Conchobar mac Meic Con Caille |
Elected and consecrated circa 1174; died 1175; also known as St Concors and Cornelius MacConcaille. |
| 1175 | 1180 | Gilla in Choimded Ua Caráin | Translated from Raphoe; elected and consecrated circa 1175; died circa January 1180; also known as Gillebertus, and Gilbert O'Caran. |
| 1180 | 1184 | Tommaltach Ua Conchobair Irish: Tommaltach mac Áeda Ua Conchobair |
Elected and consecrated before February 1180; resigned in 1184; also known as Thomas O'Conor. |
| 1184 | 1186/87 | Máel Ísu Ua Cerbaill | Elected Bishop of Clogher in 1178 and Archbishop of Armagh in 1184; held both sees until his death circa 1186 or 1187; also known as Malachias, and Maelisu O'Carroll. |
| 1186/87 | 1201 | Tommaltach Ua Conchobair (again) Irish: Tommaltach mac Áeda Ua Conchobair |
Restored circa 1186 or 1187; died 1201. |
| 1206 | 1216 | Echdonn Mac Gilla Uidir | Elected and consecrated 1202; acted as a suffragan bishop in the dioceses of Exeter and Worcester 1207; died after 11 August 1216; also known as Eugene MacGillaweer. |
| 1217 | 1227 | Luke Netterville | Elected before August 1217; confirmed in 1220; died 17 April 1227. |
| 1227 | 1237 | Donatus Ó Fidabra | Translated from Clogher circa August 1227; died before 17 October 1237; also known as Donat Fury, and Donat O'Feery. |
| 1238 | (Robert Archer OP) | Elected before 4 April 1238, but never consecrated. | |
| 1239 | 1246 | Albert Suerbeer OP | Appointed before March 1239; consecrated 30 September 1240; translated to Prussia-Livonia 10 January 1246; also known as Alberic the German. |
| 1247 | 1256 | Reginald of Bologna OP | Appointed and consecrated before 28 October 1247; died July 1256. |
| 1257 | 1260 | Abraham Ó Conalláin | Elected after 20 February 1257; consecrated before 16 March 1258; died 21 December 1260; also known as Abraham O'Connellan. |
| 1261 | 1270 | Máel Patraic Ua Scannail OP (Anglicised: Patrick O'Scanlan) |
Elected circa March and confirmed before 13 August 1261; translated from Raphoe 5 November 1261; died 16 March 1270; also known as Patrick O'Scanlan. |
| 1270 | 1303 | Nicol Mac Máel Ísu | Elected after 9 May and confirmed 14 July 1270; died 10 May 1303; also known as Nicholas MacMaelisu. |
| 1303 | (Michael MacLochlainn OFM) | Elected before 31 August 1303, but never consecrated; later elected Bishop of Derry in 1319. | |
| 1303/04 | c.1304 | (Dionysius) | Appointed in 1303 or 1304, but was never consecrated; resigned circa 1304. |
| 1306 | 1307 | John Taaffe | Appointed 27 August 1306; died before 6 August 1307. |
| 1307 | 1311 | Walter Jorz OP | Appointed and consecrated 6 August 1307; resigned before 13 November 1311; also known as Walter Joyce. |
| 1311 | 1322 | Roland Jorz OP | Appointed and consecrated 13 November 1311; resigned before 22 August 1322; acted as a suffragan bishop in the dioceses of Canterbury in 1323, and York in 1332; also known as Roland Joyce. |
| 1323 | 1333 | Stephen Seagrave | Appointed 16 March 1323 and consecrated in April 1324; died 27 October 1333. |
| 1334 | 1346 | David Mág Oireachtaigh | Elected before 4 July 1334 and appointed on that date; consecrated before 26 July 1334; died 16 May 1346; also known in Irish as David Mageraghty. |
| 1346 | 1360 | Richard FitzRalph | Elected before 31 July 1346 and appointed on that date; consecrated 8 July 1347; died 16 November 1360. |
| 1361 | 1380 | Milo Sweetman | Appointed 29 October 1361; consecrated between 17 and 21 November 1361; died 11 August 1380. |
| 1381 | (Thomas Ó Calmáin OFM) | Appointed on 14 January 1381 by Avignon Pope Clement VII. | |
| 1381 | 1404 | John Colton | Appointed after January 1381; consecrated in 1381; resigned before April 1404; died 27 April 1404. |
| 1404 | 1416 | Nicholas Fleming | Appointed 18 April and consecrated 1 May 1404; appointed (again) 11 November 1404; died after 22 June 1416. |
| 1416 | 1418 | See vacant | During this period, Richard Talbot was elected archbishop of Armagh in 1416, but failed to secure confirmation in time. Later became Archbishop of Dublin in 1417. |
| 1418 | 1439 | John Swayne | Appointed 10 January and consecrated circa 2 February 1418; resigned 27 March 1439; died before October 1442. |
| 1439 | 1443 | John Prene | Appointed 27 March and consecrated in November 1439; died in June 1443. |
| 1443 | 1456 | John Mey | Appointed 26 August 1443 and consecrated 20 June 1444; died in 1456. |
| 1457 | 1471 | John Bole OSA | Appointed 2 May and consecrated before 13 June 1457; died 18 February 1471; also known as John Bull. |
| 1471 | 1474 | John Foxalls OFM | Appointed 16 December 1471 and consecrated later in the same month; died before 23 November 1474; also known as John Foxholes. |
| 1475 | 1477 | Edmund Connesburgh | Appointed 5 June 1475 and consecrated circa 1475, however, did not get possession of the see; resigned November 1477; became titular Archbishop of Chalcedon in 1478; in March 1483 he was styled "Archbishop in the universal church"; he acted as a suffragan bishop in the dioceses of Ely in 1477, and Exeter in 1502. |
| 1478 | 1513 | Ottaviano Spinelli de Palatio DCL | Appointed 3 July 1478 and consecrated before January 1480; died in June 1513. |
| 1513 | 1521 | John Kite | Appointed 24 October 1513 and consecrated after that date; translated to Carlisle 12 July 1521. |
| 1521 | 1539/43 | George Cromer | Appointed 2 October 1521; consecrated in December 1521 or April 1522; appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1532; Cromer initially denounced Henry VIII's decrees against the Roman Catholic Church and was subsequently removed from the chancellorship in 1534; he eventually submitted to the authority of the King; suspended by Pope Paul III 23 July 1539 on a charge of heresy, although continued as the Church of Ireland archbishop; died 16 March 1543 |
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