Roman Catholic Cardinal. Prospect born Paul Cullen was the third son of fifteen siblings and uncle of Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, former Archbishop of Sydney and first Australian Cardinal. Entering Carlow College in 1816, he went on to further his studies in Rome at the College of Propaganda Fide. Ordained priest there in 1829, a gifted scholar as he was, he was soon appointed to the chairs of Hebrew and Sacred Scripture in the said Propaganda college. Appointed rector of the Irish College in Rome, during the term of his administration he oversaw the publication of a standard edition of the Greek and Latin lexicon of Hedericus which remains appreciated still in Italian colleges. Appointed rector of the College of Propaganda Fide while retaining the rectorship of the Irish College, his name was suggested for the coadjutorship of Philadelphia and of New York and also for the sees of Pittsburgh and Malta, but was ultimately promoted to the primatial see of Armagh on December 19, 1849, receiving his episcopal consecration in Rome on February 24 of the following year. Apostolic visitor to all religious orders in Ireland, he acted as apostolic administrator of Armagh 'ad beneplacitum Sanctae Sedis' until October 4, 1852 and was named assistant at the Pontifical Throne on November 2, 1854. Pope Pius IX created him cardinal in the consistory of June 22, 1866 with the title of San Pietro in Montorio, making him thus the first Irish member of the Sacred College. Deeply involved in promoting education in his country, he had the College of Holy Cross at Clonliffe erected, while his ideas remain an influence on the matter in Ireland today. Crafting the formula for papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council, the Cardinal died in the archiepiscopal residence in Eccles Street, Dublin, on October 24, 1878. Twenty six bishops and 759 clergy members participated in his obsequies. His remains rest beneath the apse of the chapel of the Holy Cross College attached to the former diocesan seminary at Clonliffe, which closed its doors as a training college for future priests due to a fall in vocations in 2001. Eventually, on Friday, June 25, 2021, the casket with the remains of the cardinal, was transferred from Clonliffe College to Saint Mary's pro-cathedral in Dublin, where it was laid among the caskets of his predecessors and successors. The transfer was due to the sale of the college. The transfer occurred through a small ceremony presided in the morning by Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Cullen's successor as archbishop of Dublin. Also in attendance was Monsignor Ciarán O'Carroll, administrator at the church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, Cardinal Cullen's successor as rector of the Irish College in Rome, who in 2009 published the volume "Paul Cardinal Cullen: Portrait of a Practical Nationalist". On Friday, June 25, 2021, the casket with the remains of the cardinal, was transferred from Clonliffe College to Saint Mary's pro-cathedral in Dublin, where it was laid among the caskets of his predecessors and successors. The transfer was due to the sale of the college. The transfer occurred through a small ceremony presided in the morning by Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Cullen's successor as archbishop of Dublin.