Edmund Tanner (c.1526 – 1579) was an Irish

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, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, Ireland, from 1574 to 1579.

Life

Tanner's early life is unknown; he left Ireland by 1559, and reached Italy via Spain. In 1565 he was a Catholic priest in Rome, and entered the Society of Jesus. After a year at the

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he was sent to Dillingen University in 1567, and became doctor of divinity. His health, however, failed and he left the Society. In 1574 he was again at Rome, and the See of Cork and Cloyne being vacant, he was appointed to it, 5 November 1574, and was consecrated at Rome. In May, 1575, Tanner set out for Ireland with exceptional faculties for his own diocese and for those of Cashel, Dublin, and its suffragan sees in the absence of their respective prelates. Not long after his reaching Ireland he was captured while exercising his functions at

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, and was thrown into prison; here, as Holing tells, he was visited by a Protestant bishop whom he reconciled to the Church. A few days later he was himself released through the influence of a noble earl. Thereafter he did not venture into his own diocese but as Commissary Apostolic he traversed the other districts assigned him, administering the sacraments and discharging in secret the other duties of his office. After four years he died in the Diocese of Ossory, 4 June 1579.

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states that he died in

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after eighteen months of imprisonment and torture. On the other hand, Fennessy in the ''

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'' writes that he died at Cullahill, where his host was

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References

Edmund Hogan Edmund Ignatius Hogan S.J. (23 January 1831 – 26 November 1917) was an Irish Jesuit scholar. Life Hogan was born at Belvelly near Cobh, County Cork on 23 January 1831, the youngest son of William Hogan and his wife Mary Morris. He joined the ...

, ''Distinguished Irishmen of the 16th Century'' (London, 1894) *

William Maziere Brady William Maziere Brady (1825–1894) was an Irish priest, ecclesiastical historian and journalist who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism. Life Born in Dublin, on 8 January 1825, he was a nephew of Sir Maziere Brady, 1st Baronet, Lo ...

, ''Episcopal Succession in Great Britain and Ireland ''(Rome, 1876–1877) * Francis Moran, , I (Dublin, 1874) *

, (Prague, 1669)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanner, Edmund 1526 births 1579 deaths 16th-century Irish Jesuits Roman Catholic bishops of Cork and Cloyne People of Elizabethan Ireland 16th-century English bishops Place of birth unknown