Dean of Dromore

The Dean of Dromore has responsibility for Dromore Cathedral in the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland.

Deans of Dromore

Christ the Redeemer Cathedral, Dromore

• 1693/4 Isaac Plume ^[1]
• 1609 William Todd ^[1]
• 1621 Thomas Wilson ^[1]
• 1622 John Wall ^[1]
• 1623 Robert Dawson ^[1]
• 1628/9 William Moore ^[1]
• 1632/3–1638 George Synge (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, 1638) ^[1]
• 1638–1641 Robert Forward ^[1]
• 1642–1673 Nicholas Greaves ^{[1] [2]}
• 1673–1681 William Smyth (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1681) ^[1]
• 1681–1721 John Leslie ^[1]
• 1721/2 Henry Leslie ^[1]
• 1721/2 George Berkeley (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1724) ^[1]
• 1724–1729 John Hamilton (son-in-law of Francis Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor) ^[1]
• 1729–1759 Samuel Hutchinson (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1759) ^[1]
• 1759–1772 Walter Cope (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1772) ^[1]
• 1772–1772 Hon. Joseph Deane Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1772) ^[1]
• 1772–1808 Raphael Walsh ^[1]
• 1809–1837 James Mahon ^[1]
• 1841–1842 William Henry Wynne ^[1]
• 1842–1850 Holt Waring ^[1]
• 1851–1875 Daniel Bagot
• 1879–1885 Jeffry Lefroy
• 1885–1887 Henry Stewart
• 1887–1894 Theophilus Campbell
• 1894-1905 Abraham Dawson ^[3]
• 1905–1925 Robert Stuart O'Loughlin
• 1925–1931 Thomas William Clarendon
• 1931–1932 Henry Biddall Swanzy
• 1945–1951 Edward Albert Myles
• 1951–1957 Wilfred R.M. Orr
• 1957–1961 William A. Jones
• 1961–1964 John William Appleby
• 1964–1965 Arthur Theodore Irving Forde
• 1965–1971 Henry Hughes
• 1971–1975 Hugh Hastings Richard Mayes
• 1975–1984 R.J. Norman Lockhart
• 1990-1992 Mervyn Robert Wilson
• 1993–1995 Roland Hutchinson
• 1995–2002 David Robert Chillingworth (afterwards Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 2005)
• 2002–2013 Stephen H. Lowry
• 2014–2015 Bryan T. Kerr (Resigned 30 November 2015)
• 2016–present Geoff Wilson

References

1. Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. Vol. 3. Hodges and Smith. p. 274.
2. Greaves became Rector of Tullylish in 1642 and was presented as Dean in 1643, but owing to the troubled times he was not installed until 1661, after the Restoration.
3. Atkinson, Edward Dupré (1925). Dromore, an Ulster Diocese (PDF). W. Tempest.