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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 ...
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
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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 ...
In the 1960s the altar was relocated while in 1986, under the direction of the Irish artist Ray Carroll, there was more refurbishment and a new wooden episcopal chair as part of a screen which obsucred the orignal canon's choir stalls. In 2003–2005 while Patrick Walsh (bishop of Down and Connor) was bishop much of the latter work was undone. [12]
Over the centuries, numerous dioceses were merged, in view of declining membership. Until 1944, the dioceses of Down and Dromore were part of the United Dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore. In 1944, the Diocese of Connor gained a separate existence under its own bishop. It is for this reason that the united diocese has three cathedrals.
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The church may have been an early church cathedral, with St. Donard as its first bishop. It was recorded that every church in Down and Connor with a round tower had a bishop. However, records of his successors do not exist. If it was its own see, it was likely incorporated into the Diocese of Down early on.