Andrew Sall

Andrew Sall (1612–1682) was an Irish Jesuit, later a convert to the Church of England.

Born at Cashel, he was educated at the College of St. Omer for the priesthood, and became a Jesuit. From 1652 to 1655 he was rector of the Irish College at Salamanca, and reader in the chair of controversy against heresy there; he was also professor of moral theology.

Sall was then professor of divinity in the colleges of Pampeluna, Palencia, and Tudela, all in the north of Spain. During his residence at Pampeluna he was on good terms with Nicholas French. He took the Jesuit fourth vow at Valladolid, probably in 1657 or 1658. In October 1659 he was at Nantes in France.

Sall was provincial superior of the Irish Jesuits in July 1664. He returned to Ireland about 1668. On theological grounds he became an Anglican, after debates with Thomas Price, the Protestant archbishop of Cashel. Rumours of his intended change were in circulation about the beginning of 1674, Sall believed his life to be in danger, and Price with others sent a mounted guard to bring him to the archiepiscopal palace. On 17 May 1674 Sall made a public declaration of his adhesion to the church of England in St. John's Church, Cashel; he admitted that he would probably not have declared himself openly but for Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex's proclamation ordering regular clergy to leave Ireland, based on the proceedings of the English parliament in January 1674.

Sall went to Dublin, where John Free, superior of the Irish jesuits, invited him to a private conference. On 5 July he preached in Christ Church Cathedral, explaining his declaration. He went into residence in Trinity College, Dublin, and was admitted to the degree of D.D.

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