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Meath and Kildare Diocese

Contents 1 Meath and Kildare Diocese 1.1 Bishops 1.1.1 Bishop of Meath and Kildare 1.1.2 Bishop of Kildare - 1846 1.1.3 Bishop of Meath - 1976 1.2 Archdeacons 1.2.1 Archdeacon of Kildare - 1864 1.2.2 Archdeacon of Meath 1.3 Deans 1.3.1 Dean of Clonmacnoise (Meath) 1.3.2 Dean of Kildare 1.4 Precentors 1.4.1 Precentor of Kildare 1.5 Chancellors 1.5.1 Chancellor of Kildare 1.6 Treasurer 1.6.1 Treasurer of Kildare 1.7 Prebendaries 1.7.1 Prebendary of Ballysonan (Kildare) 1.7.2 Prebendary of Castropetri (Kildare) - 1845 1.7.3 Prebendary of Donadea (Kildare) 1.7.4 Prebendary of Geashill (Kildare) 1.7.5 Prebendary of Harristown (Kildare) 1.7.6 Prebendary of Lulliaghmore (Kildare) 1.7.7 Prebendary of Nurney (Kildare) 1.7.8 Prebendary of Rathangan (Kildare) 1.8 Canons 1.8.1 1st Canon of Kildare 1.8.2 2nd Canon of Kildare 1.8.3 3rd Canon of Kildare 1.8.4 4th Canon of Kildare

Meath and Kildare Diocese

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Church of Ireland - Current Bishoprics

Bishop of Meath & Kildare 1976 - current

Church of Ireland - Former Bishoprics

Bishop of Kildare‎ 1540 - 1846

Bishop of Meath 1560 - 1976

Bishops

Bishop of Meath and Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
1976	1985	Donald Caird
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Bishop of Kildare - 1846

Date From	Date To	Name
1540	1548	William Meagh
1549	1554	Thomas Lancaster
1555	1560	Thomas Leverous - Catholic Bishop
1560	1564	Alexander Craike
1564	1582	Robert Daly
1583	1603	Daniel Neylan
1604	1634	William Pilsworth
1636	1642	Robert Ussher
1644	1650	William Golborne
1650	1660	Vacant during the Commonwealth
1660	1667	Thomas Price
1667	1678	Ambrose Jones
1679	1681	Anthony Dopping
1682	1705	William Moreton
1705	1731	Welbore Ellis
1731	1743	Charles Cobbe
1743	1745	George Stone
1745	1761	Thomas Fletcher
1761	1765	Richard Robinson, Lord Rokeby
1765	1790	Charles Jackson
1790	1804	George Lewis Jones
1804	1846	Charles Dalrymple Lindsay
1846	.	From 1846 to 1976, Kildare merged to become Dublin, Kildare and Glendalough, From 1976 it became Meath and Kildare.

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Bishop of Meath - 1976

Date From	Date To	Name
1563	1585	Hugh Brady
1584	1605	Thomas Jones
1605	1608	Roger Dod
1608	1610	Vacant
1611	1621	George Montgomery
1621	1624	James Ussher
1625	1650	Anthony Martin
1650	1660	Vacant during the Commonwealth
1661	1661	Henry Leslie
1661	1681	Henry Jones
1682	1697	Anthony Dopping
1697	1705	Richard Tenison
1705	1715	William Moreton
1716	1724	John Evans
1724	1727	Henry Downes
1727	1731	Ralph Lambert
1731	1734	Welbore Ellis
1734	1744	Arthur Price
1744	1758	Henry Maule
1758	1765	Hon William Carmichael
1765	1765	Richard Pococke
1765	1766	Arthur Smyth
1766	1798	Hon Henry Maxwell
1798	1823	Thomas Lewis O'Beirne
1823	1840	Nathaniel Alexander
1840	1842	Charles Dickinson
1842	1850	Edward Stopford
1850	1852	Thomas Stewart Townsend
1852	1866	Joseph Henderson Singer
1866	1876	Samuel Butcher
1876	1884	Rt Hon William Connyngham Plunket
1885	1894	Charles Parsons Reichel
1894	1897	Joseph Ferguson Peacocke
1897	1919	James Bennett Keene
1919	1925	Hon Benjamin John Plunket
1926	1927	Thomas Gibson George Collins
1927	1938	John Orr
1938	1945	William Hardy Holmes
1945	1959	James McCann
1959	1973	Robert Bonsall Pike
1973	1976	Vacant
1976	.	Meath merged to become Meath and Kildare

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Archdeacons

Archdeacon of Kildare - 1864

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	Thomas Baughe
1612	1644	William Golborne
1644	1665	Joseph Travers
1665	1668	Henry Ussher
1668	1686	Miles Sumner
.	.	John Harper
.	.	Ezechiel Webbe
.	.	Thomas Benson
1715	1724	Arthur Price
1724	1725	Sankey Winter
1725	1736	William Williamson
1736	1737	Gabriel James Maturin
1737	1758	William Boyd
1758	1765	Unknown
1765	1772	Edward Ledwich
1772	1818	William Maunsell
1818	1855	Charles Lindsay
1855	1857	William Fitzgerald
1857	1862	John Gregg
1862	1864	James Adams - Last Archdeacon of Kildare

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Archdeacon of Meath

Date From	Date To	Name
1559	1595	John Garvey
.	.	Eugene [John] Woods
1606	1608	Thomas Moigne
1608	1612	John Ryder
1613	1633	Randolph Barlow
1633	1634	John Bramhall
1634	1642	Robert Ussher
.	.	Arthur Ware
1661	1678	Ambrose Jones
.	.	William Jones
.	.	George Lewis
1730	1732	William Smyth
1732	1759	James Smyth
.	.	Charles Stone
.	.
.	.	.
.	.	Thomas De Lacy
1844	1891	Edward Adderley Stopford
.	.	Edward Fleetwood Berry
.	.	.
.	1936	Thomas Redmond Brunskill
.	.	.

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Deans

Dean of Clonmacnoise (Meath)

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.
.	.	Henry Cottingham
1681	1689	Theophilus Harrison
1689	1697	Stephen Handcock
1697	1720	Theophilus Harrison
1720	1740	Anthony Dopping
.	.	John Owen
1761	1800	Arthur Champagne
1800	1806	Charles Mongan Warburton
1806	1811	Thomas Vesey Dawson
1811	1847	Henry Roper
1847	1862	Richard Butler
.	.	John Brownlow
.	.	Charles Reichel
1885	1892	Francis Swift
1892	1900	Richard Dowse
.	.	Graham Craig
.	.	Richard Campbell

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Dean of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
1540	1540	William Meagh
.	.	David Stubin
.	.
.	.	William Cleborne
1661	1675	Christopher Golborne
1675	1677	John Worth
1677	1679	Simon Digby
1679	1708	Samuel Synge
1708	1725	John Clayton
1725	1737	Sankey Winter
1737	1746	Gabriel James Maturin
1746	1765	Philip Fletcher
1765	1771	William Fletcher
1772	1782	Edward Ledwich
1782	1787	Robert King
1787	1808	Dixie Blundell
1808	1809	Arthur John Preston
.	.	Thomas Trench
1834	1859	James Gregory
.	.	John Wolseley
.	.
.	.
.	.

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Precentors

Precentor of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.	.
.	.	Neill Molloy
1639	1657	Joselin Ussher
1657	1661	Vacant during the Commonwealth
1661	1687	John Golborne
1687	1690	William Lightburne
.	.	Ralph Bunbury
.	.
.	.	John Jones
1715	1732	Stephen Radcliffe
1733	1736	Gabriel James Maturin
.	.	John Owen
1760	1765	William Fletcher
.	.	Peter Hamon
1766	1818	William Maunsell
1818	1834	James Gregory
.	.	Rawdon Griffith Greene
.	.	.
.	.	.

Chancellors

Chancellor of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.	.
.	.	.
.	.	.
1643	1665	Christopher Golborne
.	.	.
.	.	.
.	.	.
.	.	Richard Foxcroft
1732	1733	Gabriel James Maturin
1733	1755	William Boyd
.	.	George Flood
.	.	.
.	.	.
.	.	.

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Treasurer

Treasurer of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.	.
.	.	Roger Lyndon
1753	1760	William Fletcher
1760	1772	Edward Ledwich
.	.	Robert Shenton
1799	1831	John Bayly
.	.	Henry Bayly
.	.	.

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Prebendaries

Prebendary of Ballysonan (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
1615	.	Roger Danby
.	.	William East
.	.	Richard Phillips
.	.	Henry Price
.	.	Roger Lyndon
.	.	Henry Tilson
1792	1801	Albert Nesbitt
.	.	Charles Eustace
.	.	Joseph Wilson
.	.
.	.

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Prebendary of Castropetri (Kildare) - 1845

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	Peter Leves
1613	1650	William Golborne
1650	1662	Vacant during the Commonwealth
1662	1687	John Golborne
.	.	William Nelson
.	.	Thomas Bullen
1741	1765	Arthur Champagne
.	.	Arthur Champagne
.	.
.	.	Ralph Dillon
1817	1845	James Strange Butson
1845	.	Ceased

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Prebendary of Donadea (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.	Simon Boulger
1629	1672	William Pilsworth
1672	1705	Samuel Price
1705	1721	Arthur Price
1721	1724	Vacant ?
1724	1737	Sankey Winter
1737	.	Henry Desmynieres
.	.
.	.
.	.

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Prebendary of Geashill (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	Thomas Wesley
1598	1612	John Ryder
1612	1617	Randolph Barlow
1618	1629	Jonas Wheeler
.	.	John Lenox
1630	1670	Essex Digby
1670	1678	Simon Digby
1696	1708	Samuel Synge
.	.	Samuel Shaw
.	.

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Prebendary of Harristown (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	Robert Caulfield
1780	1794	Samuel Preston
.	.	Walter Bagot
1815	1823	Charles Lindsay
1823	1828	James Gregory
.	.	Charles Moore
.	.
.	.

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Prebendary of Lulliaghmore (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
1661	1681	William Smith
1682	1695	Vacant
1695	.	John Lulls
1705	1708	Stephen Radcliffe
.	.	Alan Maddison
.	.	John Pitt
.	.	Richard Snow
.	.	Edward Richardson
1809	1833	Arthur John Preston
1833	1860	Arthur John Preston
.	.
.	.

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Prebendary of Nurney (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
1618	1670	William Lightburne
.	.	Henry Price
.	.
.	.

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Prebendary of Rathangan (Kildare)

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	Thomas Craven
1724	1750	Boyle Travers
.	.	William Gore
1749	1775	Daniel Letablere
1775	1794	Dive Downes
1794	1803	John Freind (Robinson)
1803	1862	William Bourne
.	.
.	.

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Canons

1st Canon of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
1610	1614	Apollo Waller
.	.	Nicholas Walsh
1618	1670	William Lightburne
.	.	Peter Manby
1675	1684	George Proud
.	.	John Finglasse
.	.	John Lulls
1705	1708	John Clayton
1708	1715	Stephen Radcliffe
.	.	Richard Harwood
1737	1767	Arthur Forde
.	.	Charles Naylor
.	.	John Williamson
.	.	William Cox
1860	1875	Arthur John Preston
.	.
.	.

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2nd Canon of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	John Parker
1663	1665	Joseph Travers
.	.	Henry Ussher
1670	1682	Nathaniel Foy
1682	1686	Edmund Arwaker
.	.	Seth Whittell
.	.
.	.	Gaspar Caillard
1769	1772	Isaac Mann
1772	1793	Nathaniel Preston
1793	1809	Arthur John Preston
.	.	John Grant
.	.
.	.

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3rd Canon of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	Hanover Sterling
1746	1746	Philip Fletcher
.	.	Hanover Sterling
.	.
.	.	Robert Shenton
1772	1782	Robert King
1782	1787	Dixie Blundell
.	.	Thomas Robinson
.	.

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4th Canon of Kildare

Date From	Date To	Name
.	.
.	.	John Golbourne
1675	1720	Theophilus Harrison
1720	1722	William Williamson
.	.
.	.	George Antrobus
1760	1760	Edward Ledwich
.	.	Garrett Owen
.	.
.	.

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