About Edmund Byrne
Lived 1656 – 1724 (aged 67–68). Edmund Byrne was a catholic deacon and catholic priest.
Edmund Byrne (1656-1724) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1707 until his death.
Bryne was born in Borris, County Carlow. He entered the Irish College in Seville (1674), where he was ordained on 18 March 1679. He was parish priest at St. Nicholas, Dublin. Dr Donnelly was appointed archbishop on 15 March 1707 and consecrated on 31 August 1707, in Newgate by Bishop Patrick Donnelly of Dromore.
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Roman Catholic archbishop
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Edmund Byrne was born in 1656.
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Edmund Byrne died on 22 January 1724.
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Edmund Byrne was a catholic deacon and catholic priest.
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· DBpedia: Edmund Byrne (bishop)
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