Archdeacon of Ardagh

Province of Armagh
Province of Armagh
Church	Church of Ireland

Last updated January 16, 2024

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.

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References

↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp 191–193 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
↑ "ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN 978-1-85311-420-5
↑ 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
↑ "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
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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

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[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.

[Oxford-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

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v t e Church of Ireland dioceses
Province of Armagh	Armagh Clogher Connor Derry and Raphoe Down and Dromore Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
Province of Dublin	Cashel and Ossory Cork, Cloyne and Ross Dublin and Glendalough Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe Meath and Kildare