Dean of Killaloe and Clonfert

The Dean of Killaloe is based at the Cathedral Church of St Flannan in Killaloe in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert within the Church of Ireland. The Dean of Killaloe is also Dean of St Brendans, Clonfert, Dean of Kilfenora, and both Dean and Provost of Kilmacduagh.

Since 2020 the incumbent is Roderick Lindsay Smyth.[citation needed]

Deans of Killaloe

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St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe

For Deans of Killaloe and Clonfert see below

Deans of Clonfert

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St Brendan's Cathedral, Clonfert
  • 1308 Gregory O'Brogan [2]
  • 1319 James [2]
  • 13??-1392 Michael (or Nicholas) O'Kelly died [2]
  • 1407–1438 Thomas O'Longain [2]
  • 1460–1470 Simon McKeogh [2]
  • 1534 Roland de Burgo (made Bishop of Clonfert 1541 but remained Dean in commendam; died 1580) [2]
  • c1591 Donat O'Lorchan [2]
  • 1597/8 Arilan Loughlin [2]
  • 1622–1627 Revatius (or Ryvas) Tully [2]
  • 1627/8 Robert Mawe [2]
  • 1638 Samuel Pullein (fled to England, 1641, later Archbishop of Tuam, 1661) [2]
  • Interregnum
  • 1661/2–1666 Richard Heaton [2]
  • 1666 Nicholas Proude [2]
  • 1669/70 Joshua Brooksbank [2]
  • 1692–1726 John Burdett [2]
  • 1726–1745 Robert Taylour [2]
  • 1745–1766 William Crowe [2]
  • 1766–1812 William Digby [2]
  • 1812–1850 Thomas Hawkins [2]
  • 1850–1864 Robert Mitchell Kennedy [3][4]
  • 1864–1866 Charles Graves (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1866)
  • 1866–?1897 James Byrne (died 1897)
  • ?–?1906 Philip Graydon Tibbs (died 1906)
  • 1926–1942 Le Bel Holbrooke Edward ffrench

Deans of Killaloe, Clonfert, Kilfenora and Kilmacduagh

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  • 1972-1986 Francis Robert Bourke
  • 1987-1995 Ernon Cope Todd Perdue
  • 1996-2001 Nicholas Marshall Cummins
  • 2002–2012 Stephen Ross White
  • 2013–2021 Gary Paulsen
  • 2021–present Roderick Lindsay Smyth

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Cotton, Henry (1847). Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland..., Volume 1. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Cotton, Henry (1850). Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland, Volume 4: the Province of Connaught. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 177–180.
  3. ^ Cotton, Henry (1878). Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland: Supplement containing a continuation of appointments up to the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland on December 31, 1870. Dublin: Printed and published for the author, by James Charles & Son. p. 60.
  4. ^ Kennedy's name is incorrectly printed as 'Edward Mitchell Kennedy' in both Vols. II and IV of Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: Vol II, pp. 148, 179 and Vol IV, p. 180.