Ambrose MacDermott

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Ambrose MacDermott OP, STM, (c1651 -September 1717) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop. From Boyle Co. Roscommon the son of Cornelius MacDermott. He was educated at the Dominican monastery at Tulsk in Roscommon where he joined the dominicans in 1667 and continued his studies in Spain He lectured in theology in Spain, and in Rome at the college of Saints Sixtus and Clemente in Rome serving as prior from 1686 to 1689.[http://www.macdermotroe.com/MacDermotsRoeReligiousService.html Ambrose MacDermot Roe, d. 1717 ] Macdermots Roe Religious Service. Conferred with a STP – Sacrae theologiae praesentatus (bachelor of sacred theology) in 1699, and he was awarded a Master of Sacred Theology (STM) in 1701.Irish Dominicans at Rome, 1570–1699: A Biographical Register by Hugh Fenning OP, Collectanea Hibernica, No. 44/45 (2002/2003), pp. 13–55 (43 pages). He was nominated to the see of Elphin by that Catholic Stuart King James III,[https://www.libraryireland.com/articles/stuartnoms/ Stuart Nomination to Irish Sees (1686–1766)] By W. H. Grattan Flood, The Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 46, April 1917. and he served as the Bishop of Elphin from 1707 to 1717.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmdera.html Bishop Ambrose MacDermott]. Catholic Hierarchy website, Retrieved 30 August 2011.