Archdeacon of Ferns

Province of Dublin
Church	Church of Ireland
Metropolitan bishop	Archbishop of Dublin
Cathedral	Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Dioceses	5

The Archdeacon of Ferns is a senior ecclesiastical officer ^[1] within the Church of Ireland. ^[2] The Archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy ^[3] within the Ferns Diocese, now part of the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory.

The archdeaconry can trace its history from Reginald, the first known incumbent, who held the office between 1223 and 1230, ^[4] to the current incumbent Bob Gray who was appointed in 2015. ^[5]

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
2. A New History of Ireland by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN   0-19-821745-5
3. ABCD: a basic church dictionary. Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN   978-1-85311-420-5
4. Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 360–362.
5. "Wexford Echo — Rev Robert Gray installed as Archdeacon of Ferns". wexfordecho.ie. Archived from the original on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.