Daniel MacGettigan

Daniel MacGettigan (born 1815 Mevagh, County Donegal; died 1887) [http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsMac2.htm Dictionary of Ulster Biography] ] was Bishop of Raphoe from 1861 to 1870 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1870 to 1887. [Breandán Mac Suibhne, ‘MacFadden, James (1842–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52706, accessed 16 March 2008] James MacFadden (1842–1917): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52706]

He was educated at Navan and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. [http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsMac2.htm Dictionary of Ulster Biography] ] As a student he adhered to the Gallican doctrine. ["Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish", Desmond Bowen – ISBN 0889201366 ] He was ordained in 1839 and initially served as parish priest in Ballyshannon. [http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsMac2.htm Dictionary of Ulster Biography] ]

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