Joseph Cardinal MacRory

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His Eminence Cardinal Joseph McRory.
His Eminence Cardinal Joseph McRory.

Joseph Cardinal MacRory (19 March 1861–13 October 1945) was an Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland until his death.

Joseph MacRory was born in Armagh in 1861. He was ordained a priest of the Armagh diocese on 13 September 1885. On 9 August 1915 he was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor by Pope Benedict XV.

He was made Archbishop of Armagh on 22 June 1928, and raised to the cardinalate by Pope Pius XI, becoming Cardinal-priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina on 16 December 1929.

Cardinal MacRory died in Ara Coeli, the residence of the cardinal, on 13 October 1945. He was succeeded by John Cardinal D'Alton.

Preceded by
Michael Cardinal Logue		 Archbishop of Armagh
Primate of All Ireland
1928 – 1945		 Succeeded by
John Cardinal D'Alton
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