Francis Burke, or de Burgo, or de Burgh (died August or September 1723) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as Archbishop of Tuam (1713–1723).Archbishop Francis Burke. Catholic Hierarchy website. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
Career Burke was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Tuam on 22 August 1713. He had been recommended by John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, his kinsman. Two months later, he succeeded as Archbishop of Tuam on 31 October 1713, and consecrated on 4 April 1714. He died in office in August or September 1723.
See also House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193 Catholic Church in Ireland
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