Born: 15 August 1713, Ireland
Entered: 17 October 1731, Liège, Belgium (ANG)
Ordained: 22 July 1740,
Final Vows: 22 February 1749, Maryland, USA
Died post 1755

Left Society of Jesus: 16 March 1755

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
ARCHBOLD, RICHARD, bom in Ireland 1713 ; entered the Society October 15, 1731, and was professed of the four vows July 22, 1748-9 in Maryland. He was a missioner in Maryland 1740-1749. He also served the missions in the Derby and Suffolk Districts. Becoming heir to & con. siderable estate, the unhappy man, to secure its possession, publicly apostatized in St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, on Sunday, March 16, 1755.

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981

The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary

by Geoffrey Holt

Archbold, Richard. Priest.
b. 1713, Ireland.
s. of Robert and Mary.
e. St Omers College c.1725-31.
S.J. October 18th, 1731-1754 or 1755.
Liège (phil) 1733-5.
Liège (theol) 1736-9.
Ordained priest c. 1739.
Maryland 1740-9.
College of Ignatius 1750.
Belhouse 1751-3.
Spinkhill 1753.

(Fo.7; CRS.69; 113; 91; 111; 150 III (2) 7/2/39; 64 pp.354, 472, 520; 65; 68 p.31; 92; 51 f.311v).

Apostasised in Ireland 1754/55

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000143269

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 17/08/1713 Ireland; Ent 15/10/1731; FV 22/07/1740 Maryland; APOSTASIZED 16/03/1755 Dublin

He was Apostasized in order to hold possession of an estate.

There was a Richard Archbold a cornet, and one a quartermaster in Dongan’s Dragoons (temp James II)

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1737 ANG Cat
Collegium Liège
“Richardus Archbold”
Born 15/04/1713 Irish
Entered 17/10/1731
Studying Theology 2

1740 ANG Cat
On Maryland Mission
“Richardus Archbold”
Born 15/04/1713 Irish
Entered 17/10/1731
Travelling to Maryland Mission

1743 ANG Cat
On Maryland Mission
“Richardus Archbold”
Born 15/04/1713 Irish
Entered 17/10/1731
Studied Philosophy 3, Theology 4; Missionarius

1746 ANG Cat
On Maryland Mission
“Richardus Archbold”
Born 15/04/1713 Irish
Entered 07/09/1731
Studied Philosophy 3, Theology 3 (sed ex indulto RAPN); Missionarius

1749 ANG Cat
On Maryland Mission
“Richardus Archbold”
Born 15/04/1713 Irish
Entered 17/10/1731
Professed Four Vows 02/02/1749
Studied Philosophy 3, Theology; Missionarius 9

1754 ANG Cat
Collegium Immaculate Conception
“Richardus Archbold”
Born 15/04/1713 Irish
Entered 17/10/1731
Professed Four Vows 02/02/1749
Studied Philosophy 3, Theology; Missionarius 9

◆ American Catholic Historical Society

The American Catholic Historical Researches, Vol. 19, No. 2 (APRIL, 1902), pp. 61-62

Rev. Richard Archbold, Apostate Jesuit.

The Pennsylvania Gazette of June 19th, 1755, tells of the conversion to Protestantism of this priest by being received into the Church of Ireland at Dublin on the Sunday prior to March 15th 1755, and states he was ten years a missionary in Maryland.

Rev. E. I. Devitt, S. J., supplies The Researches with this information :

January 16, 1902.

Dear Mr Griffin :

I regret that there has been so long a delay in answering your last letter of enquiry. But I was away from home, during the Christmas holidays, and since my return, I have been quite busy. Besides, you wrote: “No hurry”.

Rev. Richard Archbold.

I copy from a letter of Fr George Fenwick, dated at Georgetown, 1856.

“Oliver says: Born August 15, 1713 ; entered the Society, 17 Oct., 1731; for several years, he was employed on the Maryland Mission where he made the Profession of the four Vows, the 22nd of July, 1749. Three years later he was certainly in the Midland District”.

N. B. Fr. Archbold apostatized in Ireland in 1754 (1755.)

This apostacy was to secure the possession of an estate. It was public, in St Andrew's Church, Dublin, on Sunday, 16 March, 1755; but he does not appear to have exercised any ecclesiastical functions for the remainder of his life.

He was in Maryland, in the Catalogue for 1740; mentioned in 1745, at St Thomas; again in 1746 and 1749, when he is marked as having returned to Ireland, or England. He has left behind him many books, with his name written in them, which are still to be seen at Georgetown College, at St. Thomas and Newtown”.

So far, Father George Fenwick; he was far and away, the best equipped man in the Province for his knowledge of the early colonial and ecclesiastical History of Maryland. He had gathered together all the papers that he could find in our houses, and, although frequently importuned to write, he could never be induced to put his recollections into form. It has been an incalculable loss. Some of the Scholastics, notably the late Father Provincial, Robert Fulton, when a young man, offered to act as scribe - to let him walk up and down the room, talking, and they would jot down, what he had to say - but, he was too indifferent. - At least he refers to documents, evidently of Jesuit origin and treating of Jesuit affairs, which he used, and which cannot be found now. I have found the want of papers many a time; Father John Sumner, complained of the same thing, when he was writing the History of Georgetown College for the “College Journal”.

Now, the Campbell papers were kept for some time, after his death, at Ellicotts City, Maryland, where he resided; afterwards, they were placed in charge of George Miles the Poet, and Professor of St. Mary's College. He went to New York - died there - papers, where are they? Try to find them - and the Cath. Hist. Soc. will owe a debt of gratitude - or, when I come into the possession of the bequest to G T C for Historical Research into Maryland Colonial affairs, I will be able to make a handsome offer for them.

The points that Father Fenwick gives relating to Archbold, are about the same as I have collected from independent sources. The date 1754 is manifestly an error, as he quotes 1755 from Oliver, shortly after, and this agrees with the date of your Pennsylvania Gazette. - The “Midland Distrist” was in England.

I know nothing further of Archbold. The laws of Ireland at that time were such as to prevent a Catholic from succeeding to landed estates, unless he conformed to the Protestant Church - the next of kin, being a Protestant, could bar the real heir out, and take possession of his property. It may be that Archbold - in conforming - had no worse motive, - than to prevent some scoundrelly relation from taking advantage of the iniquitous law - Let us hope, that he had the grace to repent of his sin, before he was called to his account.

Perhaps, some Irish book of pedigree, or the landed gentry, such as O'Hart, could furnish more information about him and his family-

Yours Faithfully,

E. I. DEVITT, S. J.

Born: 03 April 1694, Ireland
Entered: 07 September 1729,
Ordained: ?
Died: 14 December 1737

Left Society of Jesus: 14 September 1737

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Bermingham alias Nugent

DOB 03/04/1694 Ireland; Ent 07/09/1729; RIP 14/12/1737; LEFT 14/09/1737

Of the ANG Province. Originally Ent in 1711 and then LEFT. He was then readmitted in 1729, and LEFT again 14/09/1737

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1730 ANG Cat
“Gulielmus Birmingham, formerly Nugent”
Born 1694, Aged 31 Flanders
Entered 1711, then dismissed 174 and reentered 1729
Ordained 1728. Novice

1730 ANG Cat
Collegium Immaculate Conception of Mary
“Gulielmus Birmingham”
Born 03/04/1694, Aged 31 Flanders
Entered 1711, then dismissed 1724 and reentered 07/09/1729
Missionarius

1737 ANG Cat
Collegium Immaculate Conception of Mary
“Gulielmus Birmingham”
Born 03/04/1694, Aged 31 Flanders
Entered 1711, then dismissed 1724 and reentered 07/09/1729
Missionarius

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Carton XII X
31/07/1723 Fr General Michael Angelus Tamburini to Robert Beeston (Angliae Provincial at Watten)
Fr General writes to Fr Beeston commiserating with him that he has too many men at Ghent, some of whom are not only of no benefit to the mission, but can be an obstruction.
He wished to learn if Fr Nugent (William Bermingham) could be made over to the Irish Mission, and if Fr Beeston considers him suitable for this and strong in requisite virtue, then he might intimate to the Superior of the Mission (Knowles) that it is Fr General’s view that he might be summoned to the Irish Mission.

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Carton XII Y
15/04/1724 Fr General Michael Angelus Tamburini to William Nugent (Bermingham)
Fr General acknowledges Fr Nugent’s joint letter with Fr Charles Prokboli of 19 March informing Fr General that Fr Anthony Bedingfield was insolent to the Rector and contradicted him.

31/07/1723 Fr General Michael Angelus Tamburini to Fr Thomas Lawson (Angliae Provincial at Watten)
Fr General writes to Fr Lawson to say that the condition of Fr William Nugent has caused him no light worry, concerning whom, before any fixed resolve is taken, and he desires that Fr Lawson transmit to him the information drawn up as is customary for dismissal, so that it may be evident whether, in any other way, he can and should be helped.
He is also happy that Fr Bedingfield, after punishment, has now returned to the religious routine.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
BERMINGHAM, WILLIAM, Father, alias NUGENT, born 1694; entered the English Province the first time in 1711, and, having been dismissed, re-entered it September 7, 1729, but was finally dismissed September 14, 1737. (Catalogue of the English Province, 1730, ancl Province Note-book.)

Born: Clontuskert, County Galway
Entered: 1650, Spain
Ordained: ???
Died: post 1679

Superior of Irish Mission 1670-1679

Left Society of Jesus: ???
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1650

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Richard Burke or Burgo” Ent 1650 RIP 1693

◆ Old/16 has : “P Richard De Burgo or Burke”; DOB Clontuskert Galway; Ent 1650 Spain; RIP post 1697

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
De Burgo or Burke

DOB Clontuskert; Ent 1650 Spain;

Nephew of John De Burgo, Archbishop of Tuam; Of the Clanricarde family (also known as Mac William Uachtar - Upper Mac William - or the Galway Burkes).

1660 At St Malo. Reported to the General as “prudens et insignis religiosus”
1662 Sent to Ireland
1670 Superior of the Mission
1679 Arrested for the faith and deported

Of polished manners; A good Religious and prudent and hardworking Missioner; Successful in reconciling enemies.

◆ Menology of the Society of Jesus: The English Speaking Assistancy
January 19

Father Richard Burke, born in County Galway, was the nephew of Dr. Burke, Archbishop of Tuam. In 1650, he entered the Society, being then in Spain. He came back to Ireland in 1662, was appointed Superior of the Mission, and arrived in Dublin on January the 20th, 1670. He was subsequently arrested in connection with the Oates' conspiracy, released on bail in 1679, and lived in daily expectation of banishment. He bore the reputation of being a good Religious, a man of courteous and winning manner, a discreet and hardworking missioner ; all which qualities gave him unwonted success in the spiritual art of reconciling enemies.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
BURKE, RICHARD, Father (Irish), was nephew to Dr. John Burke, the Archbishop of Tuam. He entered the Society in Spain. On January 20, 1670, he arrived in Dublin as Superior of the Irish Jesuits, then thirty-five in number. He had been arrested in the Oates Plot persecution, and released on bail, and in May, 1679, was daily expecting banishment. (Oliver's Collectanca, Irish section, from Stonyhurst MSS.) In 1666 he was living near Galway, Consultor of the Mission, and assisting his uncle the Archbishop, and was successful in reconciling enmities. He had been four years on the mission. (Irish Cataloguc, 1666, Archives, Rome.)

Born: 1622, Ireland
Entered: 07 September 1653, Watten, Belgium (BELG)
Ordained: ?
Died: post 1656

Left Society of Jesus: 31 January 1660

◆ The English Jesuits 1650-1829 Geoffrey Holt SJ : Catholic Record Society 1984
Born 1622 Ireland
Entered 1653 already a priest Watten
1656 Liège
1657 College of St Aloysius
1658 To Ireland

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
CONRAD, PETER, born in Ireland, in the year 1622 : united himself to the Society at the age of 31: shortly after I lose sight of him

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981

The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary

by Geoffrey Holt

Conrad, Peter. Priest.
b.c. 1622, Ireland.
S.J. 1653 (already a priest).
Watten (nov) 1653-5.
Liège 1656.
College of St Aloysius 1657.
To Ireland 1658.

(Fo.7; 113).

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
CONRAD, PETER, Father, born in Ireland, 1622 ; entered the English Province at Watten, 1653, being already a Priest. (Catalogue 1655.) In 1556 he was at Liege College, preparing for his examen, and then dis appears from the English Province Catalogues.

Born: 28 April 1869, Athlone, County Westmeath
Entered: 24 September 1889, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 28 June 1902

Transcribed HIB to Neo-Aurelianensis Province (NOR) 1890

Left Society of Jesus: 02 February 1909

Educated at St Mary’s, Athlone, Diocesan Seminary in Sligo and Mungret College SJ

1889-1891: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, , Novitiate
1891-1892: St Stanislaus College, Macon GA, USA, studying Rhetoric
1892-1895: St Charles College, Grand Coteau LA, USA, studying Philosophy
1895-1897: Spring Hill College, AL, USA, Regency
1897-1899: College of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, LA, USA, Regency
1899-1900: Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
1900-1902: St Stanislaus College, Macon GA, USA, studying Theology privately
1902-1907: College of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, LA, USA, teaching
1907-1908: St Stanuslaus College, Florissant MO, USA, Tertianship
1908-1909: College of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, LA, USA, teaching

Letter on file from Father General FX Wernz to Vice Provincial Fr W Delany regarding Fr Cox now living with his family in Athlone (02/02/1909). Enclosed in the letter with his dismissal papers. On receiving his papers he would then be incardinated into the Elphin Diocese.

Born: 1627, Ireland
Entered: 1653, Watten, Belgium (BELG)
Ordained: ?
Died: 1671, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1671

◆ Old/15 (1) has an entry “Edward Gunter” Ent 1653 RIP after 1658

◆ Old/16 has : “P Edward Gunter”; DOB Ireland; Ent 1653 Watten; RIP 1671 Dublin

◆ CATSJ A-H has DOB 1627 or 1637 Irish; Ent 1653; RIP 1671 Dublin
Studied Theology for 4 years, very good talen, proficient at letters
1658 Was at Liège - appears in 1658 CAT

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Gunter

DOB 1627 Ireland; Ent 1653 Watten; RIP 1671 Dublin

Studied Theology at Liège and made Tertianship in the Lower Rhine Province (cf Foley’s Collectanea)

Born: Ireland
Entered: 11 September 1561, St Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)
Ordained: ??

Left Society of Jesus: 29 August 1603

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 “Hally”; RIP after 15/08/1603

◆ Old/17 has Ent 11/09/1561 Rome
◆ Old/17 has “Hallio” Dimissi 29/08/1603 Milan (RH INF)

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Hallius or Halius or Halyus or Haly or Hally” - it seems to be 4 persons but considered to be the same; DOB 1545 or 1646 Irish; Ent 11/09/1561 or 1560 Rome;
David Dinnis, Maurice Halley and Edmund Daniel were received in the Roman Novitiate 11/09/1561
Studied Humanities, Philosophy ad Theology
1570 in Lombardy
1577 Studying Theology at Padua
1590-1593 Confessor at Loreto College (poss also studying at Padua)
1594-1596 Confessor at Professed House Milan
1597-1603 Confessor at Milan and teaching Humanities - gone Sept 1603
1606 Not in CAT said to be in Ireland

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Maurice Halli
11 September 1561 Entered Professed House Rome

◆ Finegan Notes

DOB Ireland; Ent 11/09/1561 Rome; Ord by 1590; LEFT 29/08/1603

Early formation was haphazard due to ill health and he was in various places : Milan, Rome, Austria and Lithuania
Ordination date is unclear, but he was a Priest by 1590 when he was teaching Humanities at Padua.
He also spent time as Confessor at Loreto and then from 1594 at Milan Residence
He LEFT 29/08/1603

Born: c1606, Ireland
Entered: 11 June 1626, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)
Ordained: 1637,

Left Society of Jesus: 04 January 1646

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1626

◆ Old/15 (1) has on one copy (13) one Ent 11/06/1626 RIP after 1645

◆ Old/17 has “Gionsono” Ent 11/06/1626 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 1608 Irish; Ent 1626 or 1629 St Andrea;
1636 at Roman College Studying Philosophy 3 years, Theology 2 years and taught Grammer - talented teacher
1639 At Perugia College teaching Humanities
1642-1645 At Loreto College (College Illyricum) - talent is excellent, fit for any post except Superior as is in delicate health

1678 Lived in Dublin, a native of the northern parts of Ireland (Fr N Netterville states that he knew him)
1698 Is said to be living in March at Mr Synnott’s in Merchant’s Quay Dublin.

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Henry Johnson 21
11 June 1626 Entered St Andrea Rome

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in Ireland c 1606 and was brought to Europe while still a child and educated there. He entered the Society at Rome, June 11, 1626

After his Noviceship he studied Philosophy for three years at the Roman College, and was then sent for a short period of Regency to the College of Macerata. He resumed his ecclesiastical studies at the Roman College, 1633, and was ordained priest c 1637. He was then sent to teach Humanities at the College of Perugia, where he remained until 1641 when he went to Florence to make his Tertianship. On the completion of the latter he was assigned to the Illyrian College at Loreto.

Ever snce 1633, Johnson had been in poor health. Six years later he succeeded to a family inheritence and was alloed by the General to make an act of renunciation in favour of his mother. His request to the General to make the act of renunciation with reversion to himself was refused. After November 1643, a frequent correspondence shows that Johnson again was in feeble health and wavering in his vocation. He was persuaded to stay in the Society, bit finally left January 4, 1646.

Some years earlier, Father Robert Nugent was intetested in Johnson’s joining the irish Misison. The General was also of the opinion that his health might improve in Ireland. Johnson, however, no longer knew either Irish or English and represented to the General that he could not hope to exercise a fruitful ministry there, much less hide the fact that he was a foreigner in his native country.

Born: 25 June 1919, Moville, County Donegal
Entered: 24 September 1946, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 03 June 1944, pre entry
Final Vows: 02 February 1959, Clongowes Wood College SJ
Died: 1997

Left Society of Jesus: 13 November 1974 (Returned to Dublin Diocese)

Father, Daniel, was a corn merchant and died in 1922. The family then lived at Frankfort Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin, County Dublin. Mother was Brigid (McDermott).

Youngest of five boys with six sisters.

Early education was at Muckross park School, Donnybrook, and then at Synge Street for nine years. In 1937 he went to Holy Cross College, Clonliffe getting a BA at UCD in 1940, and being ordained in June 1944. He was afterwards a chaplain in a Daughters of Charity convent in Henrietta Street, and later at the Dominican Convent Sion Hill.

1946-1948: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1948-1950: Notre Dame de Mongre, Villefranche France (FRA) - studying Philosophy
1950-1962: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Spiritual Father an Teaching
1962-1973: Mungret College SJ, Spiritual Father an Teaching
1973-1974: Absent from community and working at St Pappin’s, Ballymun, Dublin

Incardniated back into the Dublin Diocese on the same day as dismissal from the Society - 13/11/1974

Address 2000 & 1991: Parochial House, Mount View, Blanchardstown, Dublin City

◆ The Clongownian, 1997

Obituary

Father Kevin McDowell (formerly SJ)

Kevin McDowell was ordained for the Archdiocese of Dublin and joined the Society of Jesus in 1948. He came to Clongowes in the autumn of 1950 fresh from the Noviciate to succeed a relatively elderly Jesuit as Spiritual Father. In those days the Spiritual Father was responsible for the whole school and Kevin struck us immediately by his youthful energy and enthusiasm. We grew to love his Omagh accent and his sense of fun.

Daily Mass at 7.30 am was compulsory for everyone and it was Kevin's duty to say Mass day in day out. In those days of frequent Confession, he was also available in his room every morning before Mass, as well as on every Saturday evening. From time to time he used also to give talks on “topical” matters - occasionally (especially following “Line matches” in rugby which he might have been called on to referee) making pleas for a decrease in unparliamentary language!

Kevin was a great soccer player and - along with Fr Frewen - was a regular companion on “soccer evenings”. Although always very fair and sporting, he was the sort of player who took no prisoners and was a much feared member of the “Community” XI = in those days there was a sufficient number of able-bodied Jesuits to face the Boys XI, with a little help from one or two “Laymasters”!

More than once Kevin played a very important role in pouring oil on troubled waters, acting as negotiator-cum-peacemaker in differences of opinion between the student body and school administration. On one famous occasion he managed to cram all of the 52 members of Sixth Year into the Spiritual Father's room to parley about a possible resolution of a row which had developed on account of “unacceptable behaviour” in the Refectory!

My own personal memory of Kevin is of a pleasant, if shy, person, gifted with immense patience and a great judge of character. His long years of service to Clongowes were interrupted only by the year of his Tertianship (a final year of spiritual formation in a Jesuit's training). When transferred from Clongowes, Kevin spent time in Mungret College, until its closure was announced. At the end of its penultimate year, Kevin left the Jesuits (with a broken heart? - or so it was said) to return to the Dublin Archdiocese. He served as Parish Priest in a number of parishes in and around Dublin and eventually retired from Ringsend, having reached the age of 75.

He had spent some time convalescing in Cherryfield after a serious cancer operation, and it was that terrible illness which carried him off. I used visit him in the Bullock Harbour Retirement Home and he was so grateful to be remembered, appreciating even the most fleeting call. He often surprised me by his detailed recollection of events in Clongowes over 40 years previously. He never lost his youthfulness and zest for life and he regretted his enforced inactivity. But I will always remember Kevin as ever-young and am grateful to have known him and to have been guided by him during my time as a boy in Clongowes in the 1950s. May he rest in peace.

MLS

Born: 24 September 1724, Munster, Ireland
Entered: 03 October 1741, Paris, France
Ordained: 1753,
Final Vows: 02 February 1759

Left Society of Jesus: 1768

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 (1) has RIP after 1768

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 03/10 or 23/09/1724 Ireland; Ent 03/10/1741 Paris;
1746 At Tours College FRA teaching Grammar
1757 At Rouen College
1760-1761 At Irish College Poitiers - “Desig” for Irish Mission
1761-1762 In Ireland
1766-1768 Rector of Irish College Rome (07/01 or 12/11)
1768 Leaves Rome

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 23/09/1724 Ireland; Ent 03/10/1741 FRA;

1746 Teaching Grammar at Tours (FRA CAT 1746)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda III Catalogi of Irish Mission 1700-1735 & 1735-1752 (Finegan)
1751-1752 Scholastic at Irish College Poitiers

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1743 FRA Cat
Novitiate Paris
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Rhetoric 1

1746 FRA Cat
Collegium Turnoi
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 23/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 1

1749 FRA Cat
Collegium Turnoi
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 22/09/1724 Irish
Entered 02/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Grammar 3, Humanities 1

1754 FRA Cat
Collegium Paris
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 24/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Humanities 5

Ordained 1753

1757 FRA Cat
Collegium Rouen
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 23/09/1724 Irish
Entered 03/10/1741 Paris
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 4

1761 FRA Cat
In Ireland
“Andreas Ryan”

1767 ROM Cat
Irish College Rome
“Andreas Ryan”
Born 22/09/1724 Irish
Entered 10/10/1741
Final Vows 02/02/1759
Studying Philosophy 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 4, Theology 2; Missionarius 5; Rector from 11/06/1766

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII - Second Appendix
RYAN, ANDREW (Irish). He was born September 23, 1724; entered the Society October 3, 1741, and was teaching grammar at Tours in 1746. (Catal. Prov. Fran., 1746.)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Munster September 24, 1724, and he entered the Society at Paris October 3, 1741.

After his Noviceship e studied Philosophy for two years at La Flèche, and was then sent in 1545 to Tours for his Regency. On September 25, 1750, he arrived in Poitiers from Tours. Here he studied Theology for the next four years at the Grand Collège* and resided at the Irish College. he was ordained Priest c 1753; At the end of his studies he made his Tertianship at Rouen, 1754-1755.

He was then appointed Professor of Philosophy at the College of Rouen, and later, Professor of Moral Theology at the College of Nevers.

On October 21, 1760, he arrived once more at Poitiers, this time on his way to the Irish Mission, but does not seem to have arrived in Ireland until the spring of the following year. No record of his missionary work in Ireland has survived.

He was summoned to Rome in 1766, and appointed Rector of the Irish College on June 11. He held that office until December 1, 1768. Some weeks previous to his departure from Rome, he had petitioned Pope Clement XIII for certain indulgences in view of his return to the Irish Mission. His name then disappears entirely from the records.

It has been suggested that he may be identical with a Father Andrew Ryan living at Tullybrackey (Bruff) in 1766, according to a census of the Catholic and Protestant populations made that year (no precise date given). This Andrew Ryan became PP of Fedamore in 17745 and died in 1814.

(Note: the name of Andrew Ryan does not appear on the list of Irish Jesuits who accepted the Brief of Suppression)

• It is possible that Ryan finished Theology in Paris, as he is mentioned in a triennial Catalogue, 1754, as at the Collège Louis le Grand. The difficulty of locating him is increased by the fact that between 1750 and 1754 he was in Aquitaine, and then in Paris, and the yearly Catalogue (brevis) are wanting between 1752 and 1754.

Born: Ireland
Entered: 1655,
Ordained: ???
Died: ???
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1655 and Old/15 (1)

◆ Old/16 has : “Thomas Ryan”; Ent 1655

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Ent c 1655

Superior in Dublin in the early part of the reign of Charles II; Reputed an able-divine (Foley)

His letter(s) written in 1661 are at Salamanca

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
RYAN, THOMAS, was Superior in Dublin, in the early part of Charles the Second’s reign (1630-1685), and had the reputation of being an able Divine. It is painful to be unable to follow up the history of this Rev. Father.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
RYAN, THOMAS, Father (Irish), entered the Society about 1655-6. (Hogan's list.) He was Superior in Dublin in the early part of the reign of King Charles II, and had the reputation of being an able divine, (Oliver, from Stonyhurst MSS.)

Born: 12 December 1795, Ireland
Entered: 18 April 1818, White Marsh MD, USA (USA)
Ordained: 1825, Georgetown College, Georgetown Washington DC, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 1838

1818-1820: White Marsh MD, USA (MARNEB), Novitiate
1820-1824: Georgetown College, Georgetown Washington DC, USA, Philosophy and Theology
1825-1829: Georgetown College, Georgetown Washington DC, USA, Minister and Curate at Holy Trinity Church
1829-1830: White Marsh MD USA, Curate at Marlboro MD, Boone’s Chapel MD and Peak Point (Hoye Crest, Backbone Mountain MD) (MAR by 1829)
1830-1837: Alexandria MD, USA, Oper St Mary’s

Born: Spain
Entered: 1546, San Andrea, Rome, Italy
Ordained: pre Entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1547-8

Catalogus Defuncti 1641-1740 has Franciscus Zapata RIP 29/01/1692 Madrid (HS49 83v Tolet)

◆ The English Jesuits 1550-1650 Thomas M McCoog SJ : Catholic Record Society 1994
PRIEST
Born Spain
Ordained before entry
Entered 1546 Rome
Dismissed late 1547-early 1548

He accompanied Bröet and Salmerón on their mission to Ireland