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"His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland," (U15.1420)
Primate of All-Ireland is the title held by the 2 Archbishops of Armagh (Roman Catholic, and Church of Ireland faiths). In 1904, Michael Cardinal Logue (1840 - 1924) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (1887 - 1924). Born in Kilmacrennan in Co. Donegal, the son of a blacksmith, he studied in Maynooth College (1856 - 1866). He was ordained as a priest (1866), having already been appointed to the chairs of Theology and Belles Lettres in the Irish College in Paris. He remained in Paris until 1874 when he returned to Ireland. He was Administrator (= parish priest) of an Irish Catholic parish, then Chairs of Irish and Dogmatic Theology in Maynooth College (1876), then Bishop of Raphoe (1879). Logue was involved in fundraising during the 1879 Irish famine, and heavily involved in the Irish temperance movement. He became Archbishop of Armagh (1887), then cardinal (1893, under Leo XIII). Logue took over the completion of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, which was dedicated on July 24th 1904.
