Peter Creagh

Irish Roman Catholic bishop

Peter Creagh or Piers Crevens (born Carrigeen 25 July 1642; died Strasbourg 25 July 1705) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.^[1]

Life

Creagh was educated at the Jesuit college in Poitiers and in 1660 went on to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, where was awarded a doctorate.^[2] He was ordained priest in February 1666, served on the mission in Ireland for three years, and then became the agent of the Irish bishops in Rome.^[2] He spoke Italian, Latin, French, English, and Irish. In 1671 Oliver Plunkett described him as of average height with a long oval face and reddish brown hair and beard.^[2]

Creagh was consecrated Bishop of Cork and Cloyne on 27 May 1676 at the church of St Isidore in Rome.^[2] During the Popish Plot scare orchestrated by Titus Oates he was arrested in March 1680 and spent two years in prison on suspicion of conspiring to murder Charles II of England, before being acquitted in August 1682.^[3] During the trial the courthouse roof collapsed on his accusers, narrowly missing the judge, but leaving Creagh unscathed.^[2]

He left Ireland after the defeat of James II of England in 1690.^[4] In 1693 he was translated to the Archbishopric of Dublin on the recommendation of King James, but he was never able to return to Ireland to claim the see. He became Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg, where he died on 25 July 1705.^[3]

Notes

^ Catholic Hierarchy
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Éamonn Ó Ciardha (2009). "Creagh, Peter ('Piers Crevens')". Dictionary of Irish Biography.
^ ^a ^b Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Richard Creagh". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Wall, M. (1961) The Penal Laws, 1691-1760. Dublin: Dublin Historical Association. p. 12.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by See vacant	Bishop of Cork and Cloyne 1676–1693	Succeeded by John Sleyne
Preceded by Patrick Russell	Archbishop of Dublin 1693–1705	Succeeded by Edmund Byrne

John Sleyne

Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

1540–1693

Cork and Cloyne	Lewis Macnamara John O'Heyne Dominic Tirrey Roger Skiddy Nicholas Landes Edmund Tanner Dermot McCraghe James Miagh Robert Miagh William Tirry Robert Barry Peter Creagh
Ross	Maurice O'Hea Thomas O'Herlahy Bonaventura Naughton Eugene Egan Florence MacCarthy Robert Barry Boetius MacEgan Eugene Egan

1693–1747

Cork and Cloyne^†	John Sleyne Donagh MacCarthy Thaddeus McCarthy

1747–1850

Cork	Richard Walsh John Butler Francis Moylan John Murphy William Delany
Cloyne and Ross	John O'Brien Matthew McKenna William Coppinger Michael Collins Bartholomew Crotty David Walsh Timothy Murphy

1850–1958

Cork	William Delany Thomas Alphonsus O'Callaghan Daniel Cohalan Cornelius Lucey
Cloyne	Timothy Murphy William Keane John McCarthy Robert Browne James Roche John Ahern
Ross	William Keane Micheal O'Hea William Fitzgerald Denis Kelly James Roche Patrick Casey Denis Moynihan Cornelius Lucey

1958–present

Cloyne	John Ahern John Magee William Crean
Cork and Ross	Cornelius Lucey Michael Murphy John Buckley Fintan Gavin

^†During this period the bishops were also apostolic administrators of Ross

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