Dean of Limerick and Ardfert
The Dean of Limerick and Ardfert is based at Cathedral Church of St Mary's in Limerick in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert within the Church of Ireland. St Brendan's Cathedral, Ardfert was destroyed by fire in 1641.
The current incumbent is the Very Reverend Sandra Pragnell.
List of Deans of Limerick
Limerick Cathedral
- 1588–1603 Denis Campbell (appointed Bishop of Derry, Raphoe and Clogher but died before consecration in 1603) [1]
- 1603–1635 George Andrew (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1635) [1]
- 1635–1635 Michael Wandesford (afterwards Dean of Derry 1635) [1]
- 1635 Henry Sutton [1]
- 1640 Robert Naylor [1]
- 1661–1666 Richard Boyle (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1666) [1]
- 1666–1679 John Smith (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry 1679) [1]
- 1679 Thomas Hynde [1]
- 1692–1704 Ezechiel Webbe [1]
- 1704 George Water Story [1]
- 1721 Thomas Bindon [1]
- 1740–1766 Charles Massy [1]
- 1766–1771 John Averill (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1771) [1]
- 1771–1809 Hon Maurice Crosbie [1]
- 1809–1844 Arthur John Preston [1]
- 1844-1849 William Higgin (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1849) [1]
- 1849–1868 Anthony La Touche Kirwan[1]
- 1868–1872 Maurice Fitzgerald Day (afterwards Bishop of Cashel and Waterford 1872) [1]
- 1872–1899 Thomas Bunbury (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1849) [1]
- 1899–1905 James Fitzgerald Gregg [1]
- 1905–1913 Lucius Henry O'Brien [1]
- 1913–1928 Thomas Aylmer Pearson Hackett [1]
- 1929–1953 George Lill Swain [1]
- 1954–1971 Maurice Talbot
- 1971–1981 Walton Empey (afterwards Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, 1981)
See below for Deans of Limerick and Ardfert
Deans of Ardfert
Ardfelt cathedral ruins
- 1603–1603 Richard Southwell [2]
- 1603 Robert Chaffe [2]
- 1619/20-1628 William Steere (afterwards Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe 1628) [2]
- 1630 Charles Baden [2]
- 1635 Thomas Gray [2]
- 1661 Daniel Witter (afterwards Dean of Down and later Bishop of Killaloe 1669) [2]
- 1664 Thomas Bladen [2]
- 1686 John Richards [2]
- 1727/8 James Bland [2]
- 1728 William Smyth (Archdeacon of Meath, 1730) [2]
- 1732–1747 Charles Meredyth [2]
- 1747–1766 Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet [2]
- 1766–1772 Edward Bayly (afterwards Archdeacon of Dublin, 1772) [2]
- 1785–1802 Thomas Graves (afterwards Dean of Connor, 1802) [2]
- 1802–>1837 Gilbert Holmes [2]
- 1847 Arthur Irwin [2]
- Thomas Moriarty
- 1861 John Godfrey Day [2] (died 1878)
- 1896–1906 Abraham Isaac [2]
- 1906-1911 James McEwan[2]
- 1911–1917 Robert Beatty
- 1918–1924 George Edmund Power
- 1924–1946 Robert Philip Rowan
- 1947–1959 Charles Loftus Haines
- 1959–1966 Robert Henry Thompson
- 1966–1985 Charles Maurice Gray-Stack
Deans of Limerick and Ardfert
- 1987–2011 J. Maurice G. Sirr
- 2012-present Sandra Pragnell
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland". Retrieved 2012-02-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland, Volume 1". Retrieved 2012-02-09.
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