John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Daygenealogical web site (12 May 1874 – 26 September 1938) was a 20th-century Church of Ireland Archbishop.
Biography Day was born into an ecclesiastical family; his father was Maurice Day, later Bishop of Clogher.Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Educated at Oakham School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (whence he gained his Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab)), he was ordained deacon in Worcester in 1897 and priest in London in 1899.Ordinations. Worcester The Times Wednesday, Dec 22, 1897; pg. 3; Issue 35393; col C He was a Missionary for the Cambridge Mission to Delhi until 1909”The Clergy List” London, John Phillips, 1900 when he became Vicar of St Ann's Church, Dublin (1913–21).Dublin Heritage and S.G. Poyntz, St. Ann's: the church in the heart of the city (Dublin, 1976), p. 98. He became Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in 1920, New Irish Bishop The Times Wednesday, Jun 16, 1920; pg. 18; Issue 42438; col F holding the post for 18 years. In 1938 he was elected Archbishop of ArmaghThe Times, Friday, Jun 10, 1938; pg. 14; Issue 48017; col B New Archbishop of Armagh enthroned but died within two months of taking office, having at some point become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
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