Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore

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The Diocese of Waterford and Lismore (Irish: Deoise Phort Láirge agus an Lios Mór ) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Ireland. It is situated in the southeast of the country. The diocese includes Waterford City & County as well as part of Counties Tipperary & Cork. There are a total of 45 parishes in the diocese with an estimated Catholic population of 44,000.

[edit] List of Ordinaries

Main article: Bishop of Waterford and Lismore

The following is a basic list of the bishops and vicars apostolic of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore.[1][2][3][4]

  • Thomas le Reve (1363–1394)
  • Robert Read, O.P. (1394–1396)
  • Thomas Sparklord (1396–1397)
  • John Deping, O.P. (1397–1400)
  • Thomas Snell (1400–1407)
  • Roger of Appleby, O.S.A. (1407–1409)
  • John Geese, O.Carm. (1409–1414)
  • Thomas Colby (1414–1422)
  • John Geese (again) (1422–1425)
  • Richard Cantwell (1426–1446)
  • Robert Poer (1446–c.1472)
  • Richard Martin, O.F.M. (1473–unknown)
  • John Bulcomb (de Cutwart) (1475–1483)
  • Nicol Ó hAonghusa, O.Cist. (1480–unknown)
  • Thomas Purcell (1483–1519)
  • Nicholas Comyn (1519–1550)
  • John Magrath, O.F.M. (1550–1551)
  • See vacant (1551–c.1553)
  • Patrick Walsh (c.1553–1578)
  • See vacant (1578–1600)
  • (James White, vicar apostolic, apptd. 1600)
  • Patrick Comerford, O.E.S.A. (1629–1652)
  • (See vacant, 1652–1657)
  • (Patrick Hacket, vicar apostolic, apptd. 1657)
  • John Brenan (1671–1693)
  • See vacant (1693–1696)
  • Richard Piers (1696–1739)
  • Sylvester Lloyd, O.F.M. (1739–1747)
  • Peter Creagh (1747–1775)
  • William Egan (1775–1796)
  • Thomas Hussey (1797–1803)
  • John Power (1804–1816)
  • Robert Walsh (1817–1821)
  • Patrick Kelly (1822–1829)
  • William Abraham (1830–1837)
  • Nicholas Foran (1837–1855)
  • Dominic O’Brien (1855–1873)
  • John Power (1873–1887)
  • Piers Power (1887–1889)
  • John Egan (1889–1891)
  • Richard Alphonsus Sheehan (1892–1915)
  • Bernard Hackett, C.SS.R. (1916–1932)
  • Jeremiah Kinane (1933–1942)
  • Daniel Cohalan (1943–1965)
  • Michael Russell (1965–1993)
  • William Lee (1993–present)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 376–377 and 444-445. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  2. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984), Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II, New History of Ireland: Volume XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 304–305 and 368-370, ISBN 0198217455 
  3. ^ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 1, The Province of Munster (2nd Edition, corrected and englarged ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 119–123. 
  4. ^ Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 6 August 2009.

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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