1. Joseph Cardinal MacRory was an Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh from 1928 until his death.
15 Facts About Joseph MacRory
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Joseph MacRory is regarded as the leading Catholic churchman in Ireland during the period spanning the 1916 Rising, Partition, and the Second World War.
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Joseph MacRory was born on 19 March 1861 in Ballygawley, County Tyrone, one of ten children of Francis MacRory, a farmer, and his second wife, Rose MacRory.
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Joseph MacRory studied at St Patrick's College, Armagh and at Maynooth and was ordained to the priesthood on 13 September 1885.
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Joseph MacRory was a founder member of the editorial team behind the creation of the Irish Ecclesiastical Review in 1902 and was appointed vice-president of Maynooth in 1912.
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On 9 August 1915, Joseph MacRory was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor by Pope Benedict XV and received his episcopal consecration on 14 November from Michael Cardinal Logue.
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Joseph MacRory chose as his episcopal motto Fortis in Fide.
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Joseph MacRory was one of the delegates who backed the option of full Dominion Status for Ireland.
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On 22 June 1928, Joseph MacRory was promoted to Archbishop of Armagh and thus Primate of All Ireland, in succession to Patrick Cardinal O'Donnell, and the following year, in the consistory of 16 December 1929, Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina.
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Cardinal Joseph MacRory presided over the 31st International Eucharistic Congress, which was held in Dublin from 20 to 26 June 1932 and which was a highpoint for the Catholic Church in the newly created Irish Free State, which was a dominion within the British Empire.
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Joseph MacRory exercised occasional additional roles by virtue of being a cardinal; he was, for example, the papal legate at the 1933 laying of the foundation stone of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, in the North of England, and the following year travelled to Australia as legate to the National Eucharistic Congress.
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Joseph MacRory was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.
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Joseph MacRory was a strenuous opponent of the Partition of Ireland.
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Joseph MacRory was a supporter of the Gaelic League, and Errigal Ciaran, one of the most famous GAA clubs in Ireland, plays at Cardinal Joseph MacRory Park, Dunmoyle, which was named in his honour in 1956.
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Joseph MacRory was interred in St Patrick's Cathedral Cemetery, Armagh.