Diocese of Elphin
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The Diocese of Elphin was established in the year 1156. In that year the see for east Connacht was moved from Roscommon. Elphin was the traditional site of a monastic house established by St Patrick c450, although there are no remains of that date.[1]
It has remained an independent diocese in the Roman Catholic Church. A cathedral for the diocese (the Cathedral Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary) was consecrated in Sligo on July 26, 1874.
In the Church of Ireland, it has been part of the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh since 1841. Elphin Cathedral was destroyed by a violent storm on February 4, 1957, and the parish church of St John the Baptist, Sligo, was constituted the cathedral for the dioceses of Ardagh and Elphin on October 26, 1961.
[edit] See also
- Diocese of Elphin (Roman Catholic)
- Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh (Church of Ireland)
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ P Galloway, Cathedrals of Ireland, Belfast, 1992
