Diocese of Meath and Kildare
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The Diocese of Meath was established in A.D. 552. The current Church of Ireland diocese of Meath and Kildare has existed since 1976, when it was created by the amalgamation of the existing historic diocese of Meath and diocese of Kildare.[1]
The current bishop is Richard Clarke[2].
[edit] Bishops of Kildare (from the time of the English Reformation)
- For earlier pre-Reformation bishops, see Bishop_of_Kildare#Pre-Reformation_bishops
- 1529 Walter Wellesley
- 1540 William Miagh
- 1550 Thomas Lancaster
- 1555 Thomas Leverous
- 1650 Alexander Craik
- 1564 Robert Daly
- 1583 Daniel O'Neylan
- 1604 William Pilsworth
- 1636 Robert Usher
- 1644 William Gilborne
- 1661 Thomas Price
- 1679 Anthony Dopping
- 1682 William Moreton
- 1705 Welbore Ellis
- 1731 Charles Cobbe
- 1743 George Stone
- 1745 Thomas Fletcher
- 1761 Richard Robinson
- 1765 Charles Jackson
- 1790 George Lewis Jones
- 1804 Charles Lindsay
[edit] Bishops of Meath (from the time of Elizabeth I)
- 1563 Hugh Brady
- 1584 Thomas Jones
- 1605 Roger Dod
- 1611 George Montgomery
- 1621 James Ussher
- 1625 Anthony Martin
- 1660 Henry Leslie
- 1661 Henry Jones
- 1682 Anthony Dopping
- 1705 William Moreton
- 1716 John Evans
- 1724 Henry Downes
- 1727 Ralph Lambert
- 1732 Welbore Ellis
- 1734 Arthur Price
- 1744 Henry Maule
- 1758 William Carmichael
- 1765 Richard Peacocke
- 1765 Arthur Smyth
- 1766 Henry Maxwell
- 1798 Thomas Lewis O’Byrne
- 1823 Nathaniel Alexander
- 1840 Charles Dickenson
- 1842 Edward Adderly Stopford
- 1850 Thomas Stewart Townsend
- 1852 James Henderson Singer
- 1866 Samuel Singer
- 1876 William Connyngham Plunkett
- 1885 Charles Parsons Reichel
- 1894 Joseph Ferguson Peacocke
- 1919 Benjamin John Plunkett
- 1926 Thomas Gibson George Collins
- 1927 John Orr
- 1938 William Hardy Holmes
- 1945 James McCann
- 1958 Robert Bonsall Pike
[edit] Notes
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