Luke Fagan (b Lickbla 1659 - d

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1733) was an Irish

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in the first third of the 18th century. Fagan Licabla, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, he was educated at Jesuit run

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of Seville and was

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in 1682. His brother Fr. James Fagan was educated at the Irish College of Alcalá, Spain, and served as its superior. He served as parish priest in Baldoyle and howth prior to being consecrated

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in 1713 and

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to the Archbishopric of Dublin in 1729. He died in post on 22 November 1733.Luke Fagan
by Sean Donlan, Dictionary of Irish Biography.

Controversies

Fagan was involved in a number of controversies while a bishop. He was supposed to have encouraged Sylvester Lloyd OFM to translate the Jansenist leaning Francois Pouget's Montepellier catechism. Influenced by Jansenist sympathiser Fr. Paul Kenny ODC,'The Ordination in Ireland of Jansenist Clergy from Utrecht, 1715-16: The Role of Fr. Paul Kenny, ODC, of Co. Galway (Part One)' by James Mitchell, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 42 (1989/1990), pp. 2, 2-29 (29 pages). as Bishop of Meath Fagan, ordained twelve Dutch Jansenist priests including future Archbishop of Utrecht, Petrus Johannes Meindaerts and Jerome de Bock(Bishop of

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1659 births 1733 deaths People from Castlepollard 18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland Roman Catholic archbishops of Dublin Roman Catholic bishops of Meath Christian clergy from County Westmeath {{Ireland-RC-archbishop-stub