The Dean of Kilmore is based at the Cathedral Church of St Fethlimidh in Kilmore in the Diocese of Kilmore within the united bishopric of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. Prior to the 1841 amalgamation the cathedral was in the bishopric of Kilmore and Ardagh. The current dean is the Very Reverend Nigel Crossey, former

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at St Columba's College.

List of deans of Kilmore

*1619–1627 John Hill *1627–1637

Nicholas Bernard Nicholas Bernard (c. 1600–1661) was an Anglican priest and author during the 17th century. A dean in Ireland at the time of the Rebellion of 1641, he wrote descriptions of current events. He was also the biographer of James Ussher. Biograp ...

(afterwards

Dean of Ardagh The Dean of Elphin and Ardagh is based in St John the Baptist Cathedral, Sligo in the Diocese of Elphin and Ardagh within the united bishopric of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh of the Church of Ireland. The dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh were merged ...

) *1637–1645 Henry Jones (afterwards

Bishop of Clogher The Bishop of Clogher is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clogher in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Following the Reformation, there are now parallel apostolic successions: one of the Church of Ireland and the ot ...

1645) *1645–? Lewis Downes *1664–? Edward Dixie *?1690 William Jephson *1691–1700

Enoch Reader Enoch Reader was an Irish Dean in the last decade of the 17th century and the first decade of the 18th. A former Dean of Kilmore The Dean of Kilmore is based at the Cathedral Church of St Fethlimidh in Kilmore in the Diocese of Kilmore within ...

(afterwards Dean of Emly 1700) *1700–1700

Richard Reader Richard Reader was an Irish Dean in the last decade of the 17th century and the first year of the 18th. A former Dean of Emly,"Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton,H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860 Reader wa ...

*1700–1734 Jeremiah William Marsh *1734–1751

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*1751–1765 Hon Henry Maxwell (afterwards

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 Irela ...

1765) *1765–1768 Charles Agar (afterwards

Bishop of Cloyne The Bishop of Cloyne is an episcopal title that takes its name after the small town of Cloyne in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is a separate title; but, in the Church of Ireland, it has been united with oth ...

1768) *1768–1797 Thomas Webb *1797–1801

George de la Poer Beresford George Beresford may refer to: *George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford (1735–1800), Irish peer *George Beresford (bishop) (1765–1841), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, nephew of the above *George Beresford (provost of Tuam) (died 1842), Provo ...

(afterwards

Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh The Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, comprising the southern part of County Galway and a small area of County Roscommon, Ireland. In 1834, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh ...

1801) *1801–1825

William Magenis William Magenis ( – 22 January 1825) was an Anglo-Irish priest who served as Dean of Kilmore from 1801 until his death at age 54. Magenis, also spelt Magennis, was the second of two sons of Richard Magenis, MP in the Parliament of Ireland, and ...

*1825–1860

Henry Vesey-Fitzgerald, 3rd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey Henry Vesey-FitzGerald, 3rd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey (19 December 1786 – 30 March 1860), was an Irish Dean in the middle of the 19th century. Vesey-FitzGerald was born on 19 December 1786, the youngest son of James Fitzgerald and Catherine ...

*1860–1870 Thomas Carson (afterwards

Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh The Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh is the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh in the Province of Armagh. The present incumbent is the Right Revd Ferran Glenfield, who was elected, consecrated, and in ...

1870) *1872–? John Maunsell Massy-Beresford *1886–? William H. Stone *1913–? Isaac Coulter (died 1934) *1931–1955 William James Askins *1955-1984 Robert Christopher 'Howard' Turkington *1990–? Charles Combe *1997–2004 David Godfrey *2005–2014 Wallace Raymond Ferguson *2015–Present Nigel Crossey

References

{{Deans in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Kilmore