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Established circa 500 as Abbacy nullius of Connor / Connoren(sis) (Latin). The origins of the Irish prelatures are generally fuzzy until the twelfth century as the monasteries were the stable institutions leading ecclesiastical jurisdictions, with some of their abbots were individually consecrated bishop, without raising their sees to permanently residential dioceses.
The diocese itself was erected in 480. [1] Tradition holds that St. Patrick herded sheep on Slemish, in the heart of the Diocese, when first brought to Ireland as a slave. St. Malachy, the great reformer of the Irish church, was consecrated Bishop of Connor in 1124 and remained until his translation to the Archbishopric of Armagh in 1132.
Only two dioceses are entirely contained within Northern Ireland: Down and Connor and the Diocese of Dromore. Three dioceses and the Archdiocese of Armagh straddle the border. The Archdiocese and its suffragans are all part of the Episcopal conference of Ireland.
In 1944, therefore Connor Diocese was split off from the other two. St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast built in 1905 to serve as a single cathedral for the Diocese, theoretically running alongside, but in practice replacing the existing cathedrals in Lisburn, Downpatrick and Dromore, saw two bishops of two distinct dioceses have stalls in the ...
The Diocese of Down and Connor, (Latin: Dioecesis Dunensis et Connorensis; Irish: Deoise an Dúin agus Chonaire) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Armagh. Bishop Alan McGuckian ...
Secondly, the Diocese of Galway was created in 1831 following the abolition of the Wardenship of Galway. James Butler 2nd, the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly (1774–91), [ 1 ] on being appointed by Rome moved his residence and cathedra from Cashel, favouring Thurles instead, where his successors continue to reign today.
The Diocese of Down and Connor can refer to: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor; The former Church of Ireland diocese of Down and Connor is now partly the Diocese of Connor (Church of Ireland) and partly incorporated within the united Diocese of Down and Dromore
The Bishop of Connor is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Connor in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The title is currently used by the Church of Ireland , but in the Roman Catholic Church it has been united with another bishopric.