Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Lists of Irish bishops and archbishops (61 P) 0–9. 16th-century bishops in Ireland (2 C)
Most bishops were non-resident during the enforcement of the Penal Laws, but the dioceses continued to exist. Whereas English Catholic dioceses were forbidden by law from having the same name as a diocese of the established Church of England , no such prohibition was made for Irish dioceses.
This category includes Irish pre-Reformation, Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops. Pages in category "Lists of Irish bishops and archbishops" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland by province (4 C) Former Roman Catholic bishoprics in Ireland (6 C, 17 P) Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland (8 C, 5 P, 2 F)
The Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin (/ ˈ l ɔː x l ɪ n /; Latin: Dioecesis Kildarensis et Leighlinensis; Irish: Deoise Chill Dara agus Leithghlinn) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Ireland. It is one of three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin and is subject to the Archdiocese of Dublin.
The other 199 parishes had been grouped into sixteen deaneries since 2004, with pastoral responsibility for each of these deaneries resting with a number of auxiliary bishops or episcopal vicars. Each individual deanery is led by a vicar forane, whose responsibility it is to ease the administrative burden on the Archbishop. [1]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The Columbans of Iona were the most resistant of the Irish, holding out until the early 700s, though their satellite Lindisfarne was pressured into changing at the Synod of Whitby in 664, partly due to an internal political struggle. [note 3] The longest holdouts were the Cornish Britons of Dumnonia, as part of their conflict with Wessex.