Richard Brady
{{Short description|Irish prelate}}
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Richard Brady, O.F.M. (died 1607) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Ardagh from 1576 to 1580 and then Bishop of Kilmore from 1580 to 1607.
A Franciscan friar, he was appointed the Bishop of Ardagh by Pope Gregory XIII on 23 January 1576.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bmbrady|Bishop Richard Brady, O.F.M.|3 November 2013}}{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 413.{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 339. Four years later, Brady was translated to the bishopric of Kilmore on 9 March 1580.{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 436.{{Harvnb|Moody|Martin|Byrne|1984}}, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 349. He held the honours (temporalities) of the Church of Ireland See of Kilmore until they were deprived by Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1585.{{Harvnb|Cotton|1849}}, The Province of Ulster, p. 156.
He died in September 1607, and was buried in the cloister of Multifernan Abbey, about {{convert|6|mi|km|1}} north of Mullingar, Westmeath.{{Harvnb|Wood|1907}}, Annals of Westmeath, pp. 127–128.
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- {{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
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- {{cite book |last=Wood |first=James |title=Annals of Westmeath: Ancient and Modern |url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofwestmeat00wooduoft |year=1907 |publisher=Sealy, Bryers and Walker |location=Dublin }}
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{{S-bef|before=Patrick MacMahon}}
{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Ardagh |years=1576–1580}}
{{S-aft|after=Edmund MacGauran}}
{{S-bef|before=Hugh O'Sheridan}}
{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Kilmore |years=1580–1607}}
{{S-aft|after=Hugh O'Reilly}}
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Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Ardagh
Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Kilmore