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'''Samuel Pullen''' (also '''Pullein''' and '''Pulleyne''') (1598–1667) was the [[Church of Ireland]] [[Church of Ireland Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry|archbishop of Tuam]] in [[Ireland]].

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==Biography==
Samuel Pullen was the son of William Pullein, rector of [[Ripley, North Yorkshire|Ripley]], [[Yorkshire]]. Born in Ripley in 1598, he commenced [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|M.A.]] at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke Hall, Cambridge]], 1623,<ref>{{acad|id=PLN615S|name=Pullen, Samuel}}</ref> and in 1624 was appointed the first master, under the second endowment, of the [[Leeds Grammar School]], and lecturer in the [[Leeds Parish Church|parish church]]. In both offices he was succeeded in 1630 by his brother Joshua Pullen (d. 1657), father of [[Tobias Pullen]]. Joshua continued as master until 1651.<ref name="dnb">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Pullen, Samuel (1598-1667)}}</ref>

Samuel accompanied the [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde|Marquis of Ormonde]] to Ireland as private chaplain in 1632. He was installed a [[prebendary]] of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory|diocese of Ossory]] on 5 June 1634, appointed rector of Knockgraffon, [[County Tipperary|Tipperary]], and chancellor of [[Cashel, County Tipperary|Cashel]] in 1636. On 14 November 1638 he was created [[dean of Clonfert]] in [[County Galway|Galway]]. On the outbreak of the [[Irish Rebellion of 1641|Catholic rebellion]] in October 1641, Pullen, who was then living in Cashel, Tipperary, was plundered of all his goods, to the value of four or five thousand pounds, and, with his wife and children, only escaped murder by the protection of a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] father named James Saul, who sheltered him for three months. On his escape to England, Pullen became chaplain to [[Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford]]. Invited by the Countess of Oxford to hear a sermon of a popular Puritan preacher, an alleged shoemaker, Pullen recognised in the preacher his former benefactor, the Jesuit, in disguise. Pullen contrived that Saul should quit Oxfordshire without exposure.<ref name="dnb"/>

Pullen was collated on 28 October 1642 to a prebend in [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]] which he held until the [[English Restoration|Restoration]], when he was incorporated [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] of Dublin, and, through the Duke of Ormonde's influence, elevated to the see of Tuam, with that of Kilfenoragh (19 January 1661). He died on 24 January 1667, and was buried in the cathedral at Tuam.<ref name="dnb"/>

Pullen married, first, on 8 June 1624, Anne (d. 1631), daughter of Robert Cooke, [[Bachelor of Divinity|B.D.]], vicar of Leeds, by whom he had three sons, Samuel, Alexander, and William. Pullen's second wife was a sister of Archbishop [[John Bramhall]].<ref name="dnb"/>

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