Archdekin, Richard

(Mac Gilla Cuddy), a Jesuit, was born about the year 1619 at Kilkenny, Ireland, and joined his society in 1642 in Belgium. For fourteen years he acted as professor of exegesis and scholastic theology at Louvain and Antwerp, and died at the latter place Aug. 3,1693. He is known as the author of Theologia Tripartita, which was first published at Louvain in 1671 under the title, Praecipuce Controversice Fidei ad Facilem Methodum Redactce. This work, which was used as a manual among the clergy, was often reprinted; the best edition is the one which appeared at Dillingen in 1694 (3 vols. fol.). By a decree dated Dec. 22, 1700, the work was prohibited with the remark " donec corrigatur." Later editions, as those of Antwerp, 1718; Cologne, 1737, 1744, etc., contain the required corrections. See Sotwell, Bibl. Script. Soc. Jes.; Hurter, Nomenclator, ii, 374 sq.; Comely, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon (2d ed.), s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)