Thomas Fulwar

Thomas Fulwar (Fuller) was an Irish Anglican priest in the seventeenth century.[1]

Fulwar was the son of John Fulwar, the vicar of Stebbing.[2] He is recorded in Alumni Oxonienses as being incorporated from Cambridge in 1645.[3][4] and chancellor of Cork Cathedral in 1639.[5]

He was Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe from 1641 to 1661.[6] During the Commonwealth he is credited with having ordained - in England - nearly 1000 Anglican clergy, the most active of all bishops in this process.[7] In 1661, no doubt as a reward for this service, he became Archbishop of Cashel.[8] Thomas bequeathed money for the manufacture of a new flagon, cup and paten for the cathedral at Cashel and these survive with an inscription to that effect.[9] He died in office on 31 March 1667.[10]

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  2. ^  "Fuller, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. ^ Foster, Joseph (1892). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Dublin: University of Oxford. pp. 510–541. ISBN 978-1-85506-843-8.
  4. ^ Cotton, Henry (1849). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 3. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 330–331.
  5. ^ Cotton, Henry (1849). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 3. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 299–300.
  6. ^ "Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
  7. ^ Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum edited by: Jason McElligott, David L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 2010
  8. ^ "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  9. ^ "Rock of Cashel Co. Tipperary" by Duchas The Heritage Service
  10. ^ "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton, H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 Vol 1 p14