The Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly ( ga, Ard-Deoise Chaisil agus Imligh) is an ecclesiastical territory or

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of the Catholic Church ( particularly the Roman Catholic or Latin Church) located in mid-western Ireland and the metropolis of the eponymous ecclesiastical province. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of the Assumption in Thurles, County Tipperary. The incumbent archbishop of the archdiocese is Kieran O'Reilly.

History

The original dioceses of Cashel and Emly were established by the Synod of Ráth Breasail in 1111.

Diocese of Cashel

The Diocese of Cashel was elevated to the rank of ecclesiastical province, which was roughly co-extensive with the traditional province of

Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...

, by the Synod of Kells in 1152. Since the

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, awarded the pallium to Donat O'Lonergan in 1158, his successors have ruled the ecclesiastical province of Cashelalso sometimes known as Munster until 26 January 2015.

Diocese of Emly

The Diocese of Emly took its name from the eponymous village in County Tipperary, which was the location of the principal church of the Eóghanacht dynasty.

Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly

The original Roman Catholic dioceses of Cashel and Emly had been governed by the same bishop since 10 May 1718, with the Archbishop of Cashel acting as Apostolic Administrator of Emly until they were united on 26 January 2015 to form the new metropolitan see of Cashel and Emly.

Church of Ireland

Following the Reformation in Ireland, the two Church of Ireland dioceses of Cashel and Emly were united in 1569. This union lasted until 1976, at which point the diocese of Cashel was merged into the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory, while the diocese of Emly was merged into the Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe.

Geography

Ecclesiastical province

The ecclesiastical province is one of four that make up the Catholic Church in Ireland; the others being

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, Dublin, and Tuam. The six

suffragan diocese A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ...

s of the province are: * Cloyne * Cork and Ross * Kerry * Killaloe * Limerick * Waterford and Lismore

Archdiocese

The archdiocese is divided into 46 parishes, which are spread across two counties: 35 in Tipperary and 11 in Limerick. The parishes are grouped into eight deaneries. As of April 2018, there were 79 priests in the diocese. Aside from the cathedral town of Thurles, the main towns in the diocese are Ballina,

Caherconlish Caherconlish () is a village in County Limerick, Ireland. Location The village of Caherconlish is located 16 km southeast of Limerick City in east County Limerick. It is one half of the parish of Caherconlish/Caherline in the Roman Catholi ...

, Cashel, Fethard, Templemore, and Tipperary. ParishesInCashelAndEmlyWithLegend3

Ordinaries

The following is a list of the ten most recent archbishops: *

Robert Laffan Robert Laffan (died 3 July 1833) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly from 1823 to 1833. He was the son of Walter Laffan, Esquire, of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland, and a grandson of Richa ...

(1823–1833) * Michael Slattery (1833–1857) * Patrick Leahy (1857–1875) *

Thomas Croke Thomas William Croke D.D. (28 May 1824 – 22 July 1902) was the second Catholic Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand (1870–74) and later Archbishop of Cashel and Emly in Ireland. He was important in the Irish nationalist movement especially as a C ...

(1875–1902) * Thomas Fennelly (1901–1913) * John Harty (1913–1946) *

Jeremiah Kinane Jeremiah Kinane (1884–1959) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Cashel & Emly until when he became the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cashel & Eml ...

(1946–1959) * Thomas Morris (1959–1988) *

Dermot Clifford Dermot Clifford, (born 25 January 1939), was the Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly in Ireland from 1988 to 2014. From 7 March 2009 to 27 January 2013, he also served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Cloyne. He was a foundi ...

(1988–2014) * Kieran O'Reilly (2014–present)

References

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