Thomas Price (1599–1685) was the Church of Ireland's Archbishop of Cashel.

Life

Price was born in Wales or possibly London, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1623, M.A. in 1628, and was elected a fellow in 1626. He was ordained by William Bedell, and became archdeacon of Bedell's diocese of Kilmore. He was consecrated bishop of Kildare in Christ Church, Dublin, on 10 March 1661 by the Archbishop of Dublin James Margetson, and was translated to the archbishopric of Cashel on 20 May 1667.

Thomas Price (bishop)

Price followed Bedell on the importance of making the Irish language significant in the established church; he ordained some Irish-speaking ministers, and in 1678 he required service to be read in his cathedral from a folio Gaedhilic prayer-book presented to him by Andrew Sall. He encouraged Sall in his edition of the Irish Testament, and had himself some acquaintance with the Irish language.

Thomas Price (bishop)

Price died at Cashel on 4 August 1685.

Thomas Price (bishop)

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Attribution

1599 births

1685 deaths

17th-century Welsh clergy

English people of Welsh descent

17th-century Irish Anglican priests

Anglican bishops of Kildare

Anglican archbishops of Cashel

Alumni of Trinity College Dublin

17th-century Anglican bishops