1. Michael Cardinal Logue was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church.
18 Facts About Michael Logue
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Michael Logue served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1887 until his death in 1924.
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Cardinal Logue was born at his mother's paternal home, Duringings, in Kilmacrenan, a small town in the north of County Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.
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Michael Logue was the son of Michael Logue, a blacksmith, and Catherine Durning.
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Michael Logue remained on the faculty of the Irish College until 1874, when he returned to County Donegal as administrator of a parish in Letterkenny.
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On 13 May 1879, Michael Logue was appointed Bishop of Raphoe by Pope Leo XIII.
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Michael Logue was involved in fundraising to help people during the 1879 Irish famine, which, due to major donations of food and government intervention never developed into a major famine.
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Michael Logue took advantage of the Intermediate Act of 1878 to enlarge the Catholic high school in Letterkenny.
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Michael Logue was heavily involved in the Irish temperance movement to discourage the consumption of alcohol.
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On 18 April 1887, Michael Logue was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh and Titular Archbishop of Anazarbus.
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Michael Logue was created Cardinal-Priest of S Maria della Pace by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of 19 January 1893.
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Michael Logue thus became the first archbishop of Armagh to be elevated to the College of Cardinals.
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Michael Logue participated in the 1903,1914, and 1922 conclaves that elected popes Pius X, Benedict XV, and Pius XI respectively.
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Michael Logue took over the completion of the Victorian gothic St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.
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Cardinal Michael Logue publicly supported the principle of Irish Home Rule throughout his long reign in both Raphoe and Armagh, though he was often wary of the motives of individual politicians articulating that political position.
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Michael Logue opposed the campaign of murder against the police and military begun in 1919, and in his Lenten pastoral of 1921, he vigorously denounced murder by whomsoever committed.
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Michael Logue was more politically conservative than Archbishop William Joseph Walsh, which created tension between Armagh and Dublin.
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Michael Logue died in Ara Coeli, the official residence of the Archbishop of Armagh, on 19 November 1924 and was buried in a cemetery in the grounds of his cathedral.