Bishop of Ossory
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The Bishop of Ossory is the leader of the Diocese of Ossory in south central Ireland. Since the English Reformation there have been different bishops for the Roman Catholic Diocese and the Church of Ireland Diocese of Ossory and Cashel. The diocese' territory corresponds with the Kingdom of Ossory in the province of Leinster and counties Kilkenny and Laois. The diocese is centred on St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. Following the Synod of Rath Bresail, the see was moved to Athbone and subsequently to Kilkenny.
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[edit] Celtic bishops
[edit] Later medieval bishops
- Felix O'Dulany (1178 – 1202)
- Geoffrey de Turville (1244-1250)
- Richard de Ledrede, 14th century Franciscan
- Thomas Peverel (-1398), translated to Llandaff
[edit] Post-Reformation Anglican Bishops
- John Bale
- Richard Pococke
- William Walsh (1577-1586), murdered during a consistory court hearing.
- William Newcome (1775-1779)
- James Thomas O'Brien (1842-1874)
- Robert Samuel Gregg (1875-1878; translated to Cork)
- William Pakenham Walsh (1878-1898)
- John Baptist Crozier (1897-1907;translated to Down)
- Charles Frederick D'Arcy (1907-1911; translated from Clogher, translated to Down, and subsequently to Armagh)
- John Henry Bernard (1911-1915; translated to Dublin). Bernard was a noted scholar and edited an early Christian text, the Odes of Solomon. As archbishop of Dublin he voiced the concerns of the Protestant minority at the outset of the Troubles.
- John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg (1915-1920), translated to Dublin
- John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day (1920-1938), translated to Armagh
- John Percy Phair (1940- )
- Henry Robert McAdoo ( -1977), translated to Dublin. Co-chairman of ARCIC (Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission).
[edit] Catholic bishops
- David Rothe, 17th century
- Thomas Burke
- John Thomas Troy
- William Kinsella
- Edmond Walsh[1]
- Patrick Francis Moran
[edit] References
- Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, t.xvi, 1967
