Edward Murphy (bishop)

Dominic Edward Murphy (b Balrothery 1651 - d Dublin 1728) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the first third of the 18th century.^[1]

Murphy trained in the Irish College at Salamanca and was ordained a priest in Madrid, in 1677. He was consecrated Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1715^[2] and translated to the Archbishopric of Dublin in 1724.^[3] He died in post on 22 December 1728.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

^ Catholic Hierarchy
^ 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.
^ Brady, W. Maziere (1876a). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by See vacant	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin 1715–1724	Succeeded by Bernard Dunne
Preceded by Edmund Byrne	Archbishop of Dublin 1724–1728	Succeeded by Luke Fagan

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