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Diocese of Limerick may refer to: The former Church of Ireland Diocese of Limerick is now incorporated within the united Diocese of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick
The Diocese of Limerick (Irish: Deoise Luimnigh) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly. The cathedral church of the diocese is St John's Cathedral in Limerick. The incumbent bishop of the diocese is Brendan Leahy.
[1] [3] [5] [6] He was ordained bishop on 14 April by the Archbishop of Cashel-Emly, Dermot Clifford, in St John's Cathedral, Limerick. He was the first bishop to be ordiained in Ireland since the election of Pope Francis the previous March, and in the diocese since Jeremiah Newman in 1974. [7] [8]
In the Roman Catholic Church, Limerick still remains as a separate title. The current bishop is the Most Reverend Brendan Leahy , Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick , who was appointed by the Holy See on 10 January 2013 and received episcopal ordination on 14 April 2013.
The diocese was formed by a merger of neighbouring dioceses in 1976, before itself merging with the neighbouring Diocese of Tuam in 2022 to form the Diocese of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe. The diocese was in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin and was one of the twelve Church of Ireland dioceses that cover the whole of Ireland. The diocese ...
Cratloe-Sixmilebridge is a parish in County Clare, Ireland, and part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick. [1] As of 2021, parish priest is Richard Keane. [2] The original name of the parish was Kilfintinan. [3] Church of St. John in Cratloe
It is a Roman Catholic cathedral, the city's original cathedral, St. Mary's Cathedral, being Anglican. The building was claimed to have the tallest spire in Ireland at 94 m (308 ft), but a modern measurement showed it is only 81 m (266 ft), shorter than St. Colman's Cathedral, Cobh .
The archdiocese returned him to ministry after the investigation determined the complaint was unfounded. [5] The archdiocese transferred Casey in 2009 to serve as pastor of St. Barbara Parish in Brookfield, Illinois. Casey left St. Barbara in 2016 to become pastor of St. Bede the Venerable Parish in Chicago. [2]