About Robert Laffan
Lived 1795 – 1833 (aged 37–38). Robert Laffan was a catholic priest.
Robert Laffan (died 3 July 1833) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly from 1823 to 1833.
He was the son of Walter Laffan, Esquire, of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland, and a grandson of Richard de Courcy, Esquire, also of Cashel.
He was ordained a priest around 1794 and served as parish priest for Moycarkey in County Tipperary, before being selected to head the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in 1823. Laffan was appointed by Pope Pius VII on 23 February 1823 and his papal brief was issued on 18 March 1823. He was consecrated on 6 July 1823 by Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin.
He died in office on 3 July 1833.
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Catholic archbishop
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Robert Laffan was born in 1795.
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