Archdeacon of Ardagh
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The Archdeacon of Ardagh was a senior
Anglican Diocese of Ardagh.[1] As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy[2] within the Diocese.[3]
The archdeaconry can trace its history back to Joseph Magodaig who then became the Bishop of Ardagh.[4] The Archdeaconry is now combined with that of Elphin, one of two within the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh[5]
List of archdeacons
Previous holders include:
- 1683–1696 Andrew Charlton
- 1705–1747 Thomas Taylor
- 1751–1762 Robert Hort
- 1762–1778 John Oliver
- 1778–1790 Chambre Corker
- 1805–1820 Robert Beatty
- 1820–1839 Charles Le Poer Trench, a younger son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty,[6]
- 1839–
- Thomas Carson, LL.D.,[8] later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1870 –1874[9]
- John Richard Darley DD, later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1874 –1884,[10]
- 1874–1891 Fitzmaurice Hunt
- 1891–1896 Frederic Potterton
- 1896–1915 William Moore, later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1915–1930.
References
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp 191–193 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- ISBN 978-1-85311-420-5
- ISBN 0-521-56350-X
- ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ^ Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1967). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison.
- (subscription required for online access), retrieved 26 November 2008.
- ^ TCD,1832[permanent dead link]
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland (1912)
- ^ The Times, Tuesday, 22 January 1884; pg. 6; Issue 31036; col B Obituary John Richard Darley