Richard Lincoln

Richard Lincoln
Archbishop of Dublin
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Dublin
In office21 June 1757 – 18 June 1763
PredecessorJohn Linegar
SuccessorPatrick Fitzsimons
Previous postsTitular Bishop of Aradus (1755-1757)
Coadjutor Archbishop of Dublin (1755-1757)
Orders
Ordination1730
Consecration11 January 1756
Personal details
Born1707 (1707)
Died18 June 1763(1763-06-18) (aged 55–56)
Smithfield, Dublin, County Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland

Richard Lincoln (1707–1763) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.[1]

Born in Dublin, Lincoln studied in the Irish College in Salamanca. Lincoln was ordained priest in 1730. Lincoln was appointed co-adjutator to Bishop Linegar, and was appointed Archbishop of Dublin in 1757.[2] He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD). He died in post on 18 June 1763, at Smithfield, Dublin, and was buried in St. James graveyard.

Notes

  1. ↑ Catholic Hierarchy
  2. ↑ Brady, W. Maziere (1876a). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.