Roche MacGeoghegan

Roche MacGeoghegan
Bishop of Kildare
Geoghegan Family Coat of Arms
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Diocese of Kildare
In office	1628/9 – 1644
Predecessor	Donatus Doolin
Successor	James Dempsey
Personal details
Born	1580 Probably County Westmeath
Died	May 26, 1644(1644-05-26) (aged 63–64) Probably County Westmeath

Roche MacGeoghegan (1580 – 26 May 1644), also known as Roque de la Cruz, was a seventeenth-century Irish Dominican prelate and Tridentine reformist. A member of an aristocratic family from County Westmeath, he obtained a mostly Roman Catholic childhood education before, in his twenties, moving to Iberia and entering the Dominican Order. After many years promoting the revitalisation of the Order in Ireland, from Ireland and Continental Europe, he was considered unsuccessfully for the archbishopric of Armagh in 1625 and then successfully for the bishopric of Kildare in 1629, gaining himself the title of Ross, al Roche, D.D., Bishop of Kildare.^[1] After a dozen years as bishop, his health slowly declined and he died in 1644. His nephew was historian and translator Conall MacGeoghegan.