Luke Fagan

Luke Fagan was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the first third of the 18th century.
Fagan Licabla, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, he was educated at Jesuit run Irish College of Seville and was ordained priest in 1682. His brother Fr. James Fagan was educated at the Irish College of Alcalá, Spain, and served as its superior.
He served as parish priest in Baldoyle and howth prior to being consecrated Bishop of Meath in 1713 and translated to the
Archbishopric of Dublin in 1729. He died in post on 22 November 1733.

Controversies

Fagan was involved in a number of controversies while a bishop. He was supposed to have encouraged Sylvester Lloyd OFM to translate the Jansenist leaning Francois Pouget's Montepellier catechism. Influenced by Jansenist sympathiser Fr. Paul Kenny ODC, as Bishop of Meath Fagan, ordained twelve Dutch Jansenist priests including future Archbishop of Utrecht, Petrus Johannes Meindaerts and Jerome de Bock.