Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor was an English cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his po
Taylor in a posthumous portrait by Eden Upton Eddis at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Jeremy Taylor with figures representing youth, maturity and old age by Pierre Lombart (1650)
Dromore Cathedral showing the chancel built over the crypt where Taylor was buried
The Diocese of Down and Connor, is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province o
Jeremy Taylor
…congenial retreat. At the Stuart Restoration, instead of being recalled to England, as he probably expected and certainly desired, he was appointed to the see of Down and Connor, to which was shortly added the additional responsibility for overviewing the adjacent diocese of Dromore. As bishop, he commissioned in 1661 the…
St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast