John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day[1] (12 May 1874 – 26 September 1938) was a 20th-century Church of Ireland Archbishop.
[3] Educated at Oakham School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (whence he gained his Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab)),[4] he was ordained deacon in Worcester in 1897 and priest in London in 1899.
[5] He was a Missionary for the Cambridge Mission to Delhi until 1909[6] when he became Vicar of St Ann's Church, Dublin (1913–21).
[7] He became Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in 1920,[8] holding the post for 18 years.
In 1938 he was elected Archbishop of Armagh[9] but died within two months of taking office,[10] having at some point become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).