Robert Samuel Gregg
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The Most Reverend Robert Gregg |
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| Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland | |
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| See | Armagh |
| Installed | 1893 |
| Term ended | 1896 |
| Predecessor | Robert Knox |
| Successor | William Alexander |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 May 1834 |
| Died | 10 January 1896 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Church of Ireland |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Robert Samuel Gregg (1834–1896) MA, DD was a 19th-century Anglican Archbishop.
He was born at the rectory, Kilsallaghan, County Dublin, of which parish his father, John Gregg, was then rector, on 3 May 1834. His mother was Elizabeth Law. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. with honours in 1857, and proceeded M.A. in 1860.
In the same year Gregg was ordained for the curacy of Rathcooney, County Cork, and three years later was appointed rector of Christ Church, Belfast, an important cure which brought him in touch with the working-class population of the north of Ireland. In 1862, he returned to the Diocese of Cork as rector of Frankfield and chaplain to his father, then Bishop of Cork. Frankfield was perhaps the place with which he was to have the closest connection: his wife Elinor was a native of Frankfield, and they are both buried there. In 1865 he became rector of Carrigrohane and precentor of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork. Here he quickly acquired a high reputation for administrative ability, as well as for the qualities of sound judgment, moderation, and good sense by which he was subsequently distinguished in the episcopal office. In the controversies which followed, the disestablishment of the Irish church, particularly in regard to the revision of the prayer-book, Gregg took the conservative side, but his influence was uniformly exerted in a conciliatory spirit. Gregg's principal service to his church at this time lay in devising for his own diocese of Cork the singularly successful financial plan which became the foundation of the financial system of the disendowed Church of Ireland, and on this and other occasions he showed a remarkable talent for finance. In 1873, he was presented by the University of Dublin with the degrees of B.D. and D.D., in recognition of his services to the Church of Ireland.
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