Joseph MacRory
Joseph Cardinal MacRory ( born March 19, 1861 in Ballygawley, County Tyrone, † October 13th 1945 in Armagh ) was an Irish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Joseph MacRory, one of the ten children of the farmer Francis MacRory and his wife Rose Montague, studied at St. Patrick 's College, Armagh and St. Patrick 's College, Maynooth. On September 13, 1885 he was ordained a priest. From 1886 to 1887 he served as President of the Academy Dungannon. Then MacRory taught exegesis and theology at Oscott College in England until the appointment as professor of exegesis and Oriental languages at his alma mater the Maynooth College in 1889, where he became vice president in 1912.
Benedict XV. appointed him on August 9, 1915 Bishop of Down and Connor. He received his episcopal consecration on 14 November of the same year the Archbishop of Armagh Cardinal Michael Logue. During his tenure, his life was repeatedly threatened by the turbulent atmosphere in Belfast. The successor of Patrick Joseph O'Donnell after his death as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, he joined on 22 June 1928.
On December 16, 1929 it took Pius XI. as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in the College of Cardinals. He was the 1933 Papal Legate at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and took part in the conclave in 1939 that Pius XII. chose. MacRory was an energetic opponent of social injustice, Nazism, of Protestantism and the partition of Ireland.
After a short illness, the cardinal died at the age of 84 years on 13 October 1945 after a heart attack in Ara Coeli the archbishop's residence in Armagh. He is buried at St. Patrick's Cathedral Cemetery in the same city.