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Francis Burke (bishop)

Francis Burke, or de Burgo, or de Burgh (died August or September 1723) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as Archbishop of Tuam (1713–1723).^[1][2]

Burke was appointed Coadjutor ArchbishopofTuam on 22 August 1713. He had been recommended by John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, his kinsman. Two months later, he succeeded as Archbishop of Tuam on 31 October 1713, and consecrated on 4 April 1714. He died in office in August or September 1723.^[1][2][3]

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193
• Catholic Church in Ireland

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia della Pace.

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