Dominic de Burgo

{{Short description|Irish Roman Catholic cleric and Bishop of Elphin (c.1622–1704)}}

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Dominic de Burgo ({{IPAc-en|lang|d|ə|'|b|ɜːr}} {{respell|də|BUR}}; {{circa|1622}}–1 January 1704) was an Irish Roman Catholic cleric who was Bishop of Elphin in the late 17th century (1671–1691).

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).{{Cite book |last=Woulfe |first=Patrick |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/names/d/de-burc-de-burca.php |title=Irish Names and Surnames |publisher=M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd |year=1923 |location=Dublin |language=en, Irish}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Bishop Dominic Burke [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bburked.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}{{Cite web |title=Burke, Dominic | work = Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/burke-dominic-a1154 |access-date=2021-12-21 |publisher=Royal Irish Academy | first = Ó Floinn | last = Tomás S. R.| date = October 2009 | doi = 10.3318/dib.001154.v1 }}

References

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{{cite book |last=Hardiman |first=James |author-link=James Hardiman |title=History of Galway |year=1820 |language=en}}
{{Citation |last=Fenning |first=Hugh |title=Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: A Biographical Register |journal=Collectanea Hibernica |volume= 42 |year=2000 |pages=27–65 |language=en}}
{{Citation |last=O Floinn |first=Tomas S.R. |title=Burke, Dominic |journal=Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002 |location=Cambridge |year=2010 |pages=23–24 |language=en}}
{{Cite book |last=Woulfe |first=Patrick |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/names/d/de-burc-de-burca.php |title=Irish Names and Surnames |publisher=M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd |year=1923 |location=Dublin |language=en, Irish}}

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| before = Bernard O'Higgins

| title = Bishop of Elphin

| years = 1671–1704

| after = Ambrose MacDermott

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