page_title: Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh
section_title: Bishop of Cork and Cloyne
hierarchical_section_title: Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh / Bishop of Cork and Cloyne
caption_attribution_description: English: The floor of the Blessed Thaddeus Chapel in Cobh Cathedral, Co. Cork, Ireland, by Ludwig Oppenheimer.
context_page_description: Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh c. 1455 – 25 October 1492, was an Irish ecclesiastic. He was a bishop who never ruled his see, even though he was appointed to two of them: Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490. His feast day is 25 October.
context_section_description: Returning to Munster, Mac Cárthaigh found that Gerald FitzGerald had usurped the Diocese of Cork and Cloyne with support from local rulers. Opponents of the Mac Cárthaigh dynasty included the corporation of the City of Cork, and the Earl of Desmond. Gerald Fitzgerald had the backing of leading landowners in the county.
  Armed men took possession of the cathedral preventing Mac Cárthaigh from entering. For two years, he travelled from town to village armed with the papal documents announcing his rightful appointment and absolution from any criminal charge. Having opposed any retaliation by his own lineage, they too abandoned him. Without dynastic support, status or security, Mac Cárthaigh once again set off for Rome to plead his case to the Pope. Pope Innocent XIII gave him another document dated 18 July 1492. It ordered that Gerald, Earl of Kildare, at that time, one of the most powerful figures in Ireland, should, with his army, protect and restore Mac Cárthaigh to his rightful place as Bishop of Cork and Cloyne.
  Fearing danger to his life from his enemies, Mac Cárthaigh set out for Ireland as a pilgrim.
caption: Mosaic in the Chapel of Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy, Cobh Cathedral.
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