Maurice Hurley (bishop)

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Maurice Hurley

| title = Bishop of Emly

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| church = Catholic Church

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| term = 1623–1646

| predecessor = See vacant since 1586

| successor = Terence O'Brien (bishop)

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| consecration = 7 September 1623

| consecrated_by = David Rothe

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| death_date = 1646

| death_place = Emly, Ireland

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Maurice Hurley (died 1586) was a 17th-century Roman Catholic prelate.[https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=CE714ADE489E94CC099F61D2FB856219?articleId=a6496&searchClicked=clicked&searchBy=&browsesearch=yes Dictionary of Irish Biography]

He served as Bishop of Emly:{{cite book | last=Brady | first=William Maziere | title=The episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland AD 1400 to 1875 |volume=2 | year=1876 | oclc=655156325 |pages=35–39}}

from his consecration on 7 September 1623{{cite book |editor1-last=Moody |editor1-first=T.W. |editor2-last=Martin |editor2-first=F.X. |editor3-last=Byrne |editor3-first=F.J. | title=A New History of Ireland |volume=9 Maps, genealogies, lists | series=A Companion to Irish History, part 2 |publisher=Clarendon Press | year=1984 | isbn=0-19-821745-5 | oclc=1152598744 |pages=297–298}} until his death in September 1646.{{cite book | last1=Fryde | first1=Edmund Boleslav |last2=Greenway |first2=D.E. |last3=Porter |first3=S. |last4=Roy |first4= I. | title=Handbook of British chronology | publisher=Offices of the Royal Historical Society : University College | year=1986 | oclc=989682481 | url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/12612038.html | page=381}} There is a stone in the wall at St Ailbe's National School, which was taken from Emly Cathedral when it was demolished in 1827.[https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922298/4868201/5019934 Duchas]