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Dean Of Derry
The Dean of Derry is based at St Columb's Cathedral, Derry in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe in the Church of Ireland. The current Dean of Derry is Raymond Stewart. He was appointed to the cathedral in December 2016 and inaugurated on 28 March 2017 by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Kenneth Good. Stewart succeeded William Morton who served as Dean of Derry for almost 20 years and then took on role as Dean of St Patricks Cathedral in Dublin in September 2016. Deans of Derry * 1611/2 William Webbe * 1621–1635 Henry Sutton (afterwards Dean of Limerick, 1635) * 1635–1637 Michael Wandesford * 1637/8–1639 James Margetson (afterwards Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 1639) * 1639/40 Geoffrey Rhodes * 1661 George Beaumont * 1663 George Holland * 1670–1671 William Lightburne * 1671/2 John Lesley * 1672 Peter Manby (converted to Roman Catholic but remained dean) * 1690–1690 Peter Morris * 1690/1–1695 Thomas Wallis * 1695–1699/1700 Coote Ormsby * 1699/1700 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Columb's Cathedral
St Columb's Cathedral in the walled city of Derry, Northern Ireland, is the cathedral church and episcopal see of the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. It is also the parish church of Templemore. It is dedicated to Saint Columba, the Irish monk who established a Christian settlement in the area before being exiled from Ireland and introducing Christianity to Scotland and northern England. Built after the Reformation in Ireland, St Columb's is the first Anglican cathedral to have been built in the British Isles after the Reformation and was the first non-Roman Catholic cathedral to be built in Western Europe. History The original site of the diocesan cathedral was in Templemore ( ga, An Teampalll Mór or "the Big Church"). Due to the violence of the Nine Years' War, the church was destroyed. It was first damaged by an accidental explosion on 24 April 1568, the church having been appropriated for the storage of gunpowder. On 16 April 1600, Sir Henry Docwra entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sydney Smyth
Philip Sydney Smyth (14 March 1715 – 29 April 1787) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and fourth Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ireland. He succeeded to the viscountcy on 8 September 1724. Career Ecclesiastical He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. King George II appointed him Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1746 but the chapter successfully argued that the Crown was not the patron, and he was dispossessed. He was successively Prebendary of Killaspugmullane in Cork Cathedral; Precentor of Elphin (1746–52); Dean of Derry (1752–69); and Archdeacon of Derry (1769–74). Political He sat in the Irish House of Lords until 1784, when he was excluded by Act of Parliament after being tried and convicted of corruption for soliciting a bribe of £200 from the applicant in a court case that was pending before the House. The scandal was exacerbated by the fact that it came less than two years after the Irish Lords had regained final appellate jurisdictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Robert Lawrenson
Leslie Robert Lawrenson (July 25, 1902 - 1978) was Dean of Derry from 1946 until 1967. Life Born in 1902, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1926. Hayes was a curate at Derry Cathedral, the rector of Donegal from 1930 to 1938 and then of Conwal and Leck Conwal and Leck ( ga, Conbháil agus Leac) is a parish located in north-east County Donegal, Province of Ulster, Ireland. It covers west Letterkenny and the surrounding hinterland. The parish has approximately 10,000 inhabitants and 1,000 famili ... until his appointment to the deanery. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrenson, Leslie Robert 1902 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 20th-century Irish Anglican priests Deans of Derry 1978 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard King (priest)
Richard George Salmon King (187123 October 1958) was the Dean of Derry from 1921 to 1946. King was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1895. He was a curate at Mullingar and then Holloway, London, Holloway before becoming the Rector (ecclesiastical), rector of List of townlands in County Londonderry, Drumachose in 1904, a post he held until his appointment to the deanery. King was an ardent Unionist. King was married with Dorothea King, youngest daughter of Andrew Ferguson Smyly, formerly dean of Derry, and niece of William Alexander (bishop), William Alexander. When King refused the offer to become Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland), Archbishop of Armagh in 1938, the illness of his wife was one of the reasons. In 1947, a stained glass window was installed in her memory in the baptistery of St Columb's Cathedral. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hayes (priest)
Richard Hayes was Dean of Derry from 1911 until 1921. Early life and education He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1882. Career Hayes began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at Derry Cathedral. He was Rector of Drumragh from 1893 to 1904; and of Templemore from 1904 until his elevation to the deanery. Death He died on 12 November 1938.''Deaths.'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ( ... (London, United Kingdom), Tuesday, Nov 15, 1938; pg. 1; Issue 48152 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, Richard Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Derry 1938 deaths Year of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Galbraith (priest)
George Galbraith was Dean of Derry from 1901 until his death in 1911. Born in 1829, he was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1852 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Kilglass. He was Rector of Lower Cumber from 1867"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 until his elevation to the Deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or reside .... He died on 3 October 1911. References Deans of Derry 1829 births 1911 deaths People educated at Portora Royal School Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gwynn (priest)
John Gwynn (28 August 1827 – 3 April 1917) was an Irish Syriacist. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College, Dublin (the University of Dublin) from 1888 to 1907.''Burke’s Irish Family Records'', Burke’s Peerage Ltd., 1976. Biography John Gwynn (1827–1917) was born in Larne, the eldest son of the Reverend Stephen Gwynne (1792–1873). The Gwynne family had been settled in Ulster since the 17th century. The spelling of the family surname had varied throughout the earlier years; it was John Gwynn, the subject of this article, who settled on "Gwynn" with no "e". John’s grandfather John Gwynne (1761–1852) had studied at Trinity College, Dublin. after taking a degree in Divinity he was ordained and became Rector of Kilroot near Carrickfergus, County Antrim. His elder son Stephen (1792–1873), John Gwynn's father, followed a similar career route, graduating from Trinity College, Dublin and becoming Rector of Larne, County Antrim, and then Rector of Portste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usher Tighe
Hugh Usher Tighe (b Castletowndevlin 27 February 1802 – d Newtownstewart 11 August 1874) was a Dean of the Church of England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and ordained deacon in 1826 and priest in 1827. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Longbridge Deverill. After this he was the Rector of Clonmore then a Chaplain to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland."LORD DE GREY'S CHAPLAINS" The Morning Chronicle ''The Morning Chronicle'' was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. It ... (London, England), Friday, 29 October 1841; Issue 22448 References 1802 births 1874 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Deans of Leighlin Deans of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Deans of Ardagh Deans of Derry {{Ireland-Anglican- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Dromore
The Bishop of Dromore is an episcopal title which takes its name after the original monastery of Dromore in County Down, Northern Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church the title still continues as a separate bishopric, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics. History The monastery of Dromore is believed to have been founded by St Colman, first bishop or abbot of Dromore, sometime between 497 and 513. The first building was a small wattle and daub church on the northern bank of the River Lagan. Only a couple of the names of the monastic-bishops survive. Mael-Brigid Mac Cathasaigh, bishop and abbot of Dromore, died in 972, and in the Annals of Ulster record the death of Riagán, bishop of Druim Mór, in 1101. The diocese of Dromore was established through the reorganisation of the Irish Church in the late 12th century, possibly at the synod held in Dublin in 1192 by the papal legate, Múirges Ua hÉnna, Archbishop of Cashel. The diocese coincided wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Saurin
James Saurin (c.1760–1842) was an Ireland, Irish Anglican bishop in the 19th century. He was the last Bishop of Dromore before it was merged with the Diocese of Down and Connor. He was born in Belfast, the third of the four sons of James Saurin, vicar of Belfast (died 1774) and Jane Duff.Robert Dunlop (historian), Dunlop, Robert, ''William Saurin'' ''Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900'' Vol. 50 p.333 William Saurin, Attorney General for Ireland, was his elder brother. The Saurins were of Huguenot extraction, originally from Nimes in France. It was probably the Bishop's grandfather, Lewis Saurin, Louis, who settled in Ireland about 1727 and became Dean of Ardagh; Louis was a brother of the celebrated preacher Jacques Saurin. Like his brothers, James was educated at Dubourdien's School, a well-regarded private academy in Lisburn. He married Elizabeth Lyster and had a numerous family, including James Saurin (priest), James, Archdeacon of Dromore from 1832 to 1879 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Killala And Achonry
The Bishop of Killala and Achonry was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Killala and Achonry in the Ecclesiastical Province of Tuam. The diocese comprised part of Counties Mayo and Sligo in Ireland. The Episcopal see was a union of the bishoprics of Killala and Achonry which were united in 1622. Over the next two hundred and eleven years there were twenty-three bishops of the united diocese. Under the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833, Killala and Achonry were united to the archbishopric of Tuam in 1834. Following the death of Archbishop Trench in 1839, Tuam lost its metropolitan and archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdio ...ric status and became the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry in the Province of Armagh. List of Bish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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