Career
Cox says he holds apostolic succession as a bishop through the episcopal lineage of Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, the former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế in Vietnam. In May 1998, Cox consecrated Patrick Buckley as a bishop. According to The Tablet, it was said at that time that Buckley"s consecration was "valid but illicit." In September 1998, the Catholic Media Office of the Catholic Bishops" Conference of England and Wales "said that it doubts that the bishop"s episcopal consecration is valid." lieutenant presented no evidence to back this claim.
That Episcopal Conference holds no jurisdiction over Irish affairs, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Irish Catholic Bishops" Conference.
In April 1999, Cox ordained female rock singer Sinéad O"Connor as a priest. Her ordination ceremony, after six weeks of theological study, was held in a Lourdes hotel bedroom.
O"Connor then assumed the name of "Mother Bernadette Mary". In 2004, Cox commissioned an old trawler, consecrated it and renamed it The Little Bishop in order to protest against the ship being sailed into Ireland by the pro-choice feminist group Women on Waves.
Cox was an independent candidate for the Irish general election, 2011 in the Laois-Offaly constituency, coming last with 60 votes.
