John MacHale, Date of Birth, Date of Death

John MacHale

Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1791

Date of Death: 07-Nov-1881

Profession: Catholic priest, author

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

John MacHale (Irish: Seán Mac Éil; 6 March 1789 – 7 November 1881) was the Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish nationalist. He laboured and wrote to secure Catholic Emancipation, legislative independence, justice for tenants and the poor, and vigorously assailed the proselytizers and the government's proposal for a mix-faith national school system.
He preached regularly to his flock in Irish and ‘almost alone among the Bishops he advocated the use of Irish by the Catholic clergy.’