TROY, JOHN THOMAS. - Bishop, b. at Portestown near Dublin on 10 May 1739, d. at Dublin on 11 May 1823.
In Rome he entered the Dominican Order in 1755, taught theology and canon law, and was rector of St. Clement's, entrusted to the Irish Dominicans. Appointed bishop of Ossory in 1776, he maintained an attitude favorable to the constituted authorities. Archbishop of Dublin in 1786, he supported the English unionist project and persuaded the other bishops to abandon the neutrality they had initially maintained on that question. In 1795 he founded the ecclesiastical Institute of Maynooth, and in 1815 he laid the first stone of the cathedral of Dublin.
Bibliography3 worksA. Bellesheim, Gesch. der kath. Kirche in Irland, III, Mainz 1891, passim; W. E. Lecky, A hist. of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, V, Lon
BIBL.: A. Bellesheim, Gesch. der kath. Kirche in Irland, III, Mainz 1891, passim; W. E. Lecky, A hist. of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, V, London 1913, passim; C. L. Falkiner, s. v. in Dict. of Nat. Biogr., XIX, Oxford 1921, pp. 1188-89.
Furlani, Silvio. “Troy, john thomas.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 578. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/troy-john-thomas.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “Troy, john thomas.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 578. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/troy-john-thomas.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_troy_john_thomas,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {Troy, john thomas},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {578},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/troy-john-thomas}
}
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