Archdeacon of Ardagh

Province of Armagh
Church	Church of Ireland

The Archdeacon of Ardagh was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the 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– Marcus Gervais Beresford, DD, PCi, ^[7]
• 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

1. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp 191–193 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
2. "ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN   978-1-85311-420-5
3. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X
4. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN   0-19-821745-5
5. Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
6. Burke, Bernard (1967). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison.
7. Falkiner, C. L., Beresford, Marcus Gervais (1801–1885), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh , rev. Kenneth Milne, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/2198 (subscription required for online access), retrieved 26 November 2008.
8. TCD,1832 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
9. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland (1912)
10. The Times, Tuesday, 22 January 1884; pg. 6; Issue 31036; col B Obituary John Richard Darley