Luke Fagan

Luke Fagan (b Lickbla 1659 - d Dublin 1733) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the first third of the 18th century.^[1] Fagan Licabla, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath,^[2] he was educated at Jesuit run Irish College of Seville and was ordained priest 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 Bishop of Meath in 1713^[3] and translated to the Archbishopric of Dublin in 1729.^[4] He died in post on 22 November 1733.^[5]

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,^[6] as Bishop of Meath Fagan, ordained twelve Dutch Jansenist priests including future Archbishop of Utrecht, Petrus Johannes Meindaerts and Jerome de Bock(Bishop of Haarlem).^[5]

Notes

1. Catholic Hierarchy
2. Castlepollard honours Archbishop Luke Fagan by Mags Gargan, The Irish Catholic, June 26, 2014.
3. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
4. Brady, W. Maziere (1876a). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
5. Luke Fagan by Sean Donlan, Dictionary of Irish Biography.
6. '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).

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by See vacant	Bishop of Meath 1713–1729	Succeeded by Stephen MacEgan
Preceded by Edward Murphy	Archbishop of Dublin 1724–1728	Succeeded by John Linegar