Roger Boyle (1617?1687) was an Irish Protestant churchman, Bishop of Down and Connor and Bishop of Clogher.Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 0713642556
Life He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in 1638 and later became a fellow."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p89: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 he became tutor to The 5th Marquess of Winchester, in whose family he remained until the Restoration of 1660. In 1661 he became rector of Carrigaline and of Ringrone in the diocese of Cork.Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p 14: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929 He was Precentor of Ross Cathedral from February to September 1663"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p357 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Treasurer of Cloyne Cathedral from then to 1667;"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p316 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 He was advanced to the deanery of Cork,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p 240 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 and on 12 September 1667 he was promoted to the see of Down and Connor."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp 207/8 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 On 21 September 1672 he was translated to the see of Clogher."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p 80 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 He died at Clones on 26 November 1687, in the seventieth year of his age, and was buried in the church at Clones.T. F. Henderson, ‘Boyle, Roger (1617/18?–1687)’, rev. Jason Mc Elligott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 Aug 2015
Works He was the author of Inquisitio in fidem Christianorum hujus Sæculi, Dublin, 1665, and Summa Theologiæ Christianæ, Dublin, 1681. His commonplace book on various subjects, together with an abstract of Sir Kenelm Digby's Treatise of Bodies, is in manuscript in Trinity College Library, Dublin.
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