John D'Alton

John Francis Cardinal D' Alton ( born October 11, 1882 in Claremorris, Ireland, † February 1, 1963 in Dublin) was archbishop of Armagh.

Life

John D' Alton received after years of study in Dublin, Rome, Oxford and Cambridge on 18 April 1908, the sacrament of Holy Orders and worked from 1910 to 1942 as a teacher at the seminary of Maynooth ( County Kildare ), which he described as rain also led from 1936. From 1912 to 1924 he was also Vice-Chancellor of the National University in Dublin. 1938 awarded him by Pope Pius XI. the honorary title of domestic prelates of His Holiness. About the borders of Ireland, it has been known John D' Alton as the author of the eponymous plan to bring about the political unity of the country.

1942 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Titular Bishop of Binda and Coadjutor Bishop of Meath and a year later Bishop of Meath. In 1946, he was then Archbishop of Armagh and on 12 January 1953, it Pius XII. as cardinal priest with the pro hac vice levied for the titular church of Sant'Agata dei Goti title diakonia in the College of Cardinals. In 1962 he participated in the first session of the Second Vatican Council. He died on 1 February 1963 in Dublin and was buried in the grounds of the Metropolitan Basilica of Armagh.