Patrick

(St.), the apostle and tutelar saint. of Ireland, born in 377, and died in 460, after having founded the church of Armagh, the metropolitical see of that country. Some works falsely attributed to him were printed at Lon-. don,.in 1656, 8vo. Patrick (Peter), born at The alonica, under the reign of Just in i an, who sent him in 534, as emba ador to Amalasonta, queen of the Goths: and in 550 to Chosroes, king of Persia, to conclude a peace with him. He was rewarded for these services with the office of master of the palace. We have by him the fragment of a work, entitled The History of Amba adors, to be found in the collection of — Byzantine historians, in 1648, folio. Patrick (Simon),a learned English bishop, born at Gains borough, in Lincoln shire, in 46206. He was educated at Queen’s college, Cambridge, and afterwards became chaplain to sir Walter St. John. He had the rectory of | St. Paul’s, Covent-garden: where he continued all the time of the plague in 1665. In 1678, he was made dean of Peter borough. Durin the reign of king James, the dean preached ane wrote against the errors of the church of Rome. The year after the revolution he was appointed bishop of Chi chester, and employed, with others newly consecrated, to settle the affairs of the church of Ireland. In 1691, he was translated to the see of Ely, in the room of the deprived bishop Turner, He died in 1707, after having published many works, among which his Paraphrase and Commentaries on the Holy Scriptures, 3 vols. fol. are most distinguished.