John King was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. [1]
The second son of Admiral Edward Durnford King, [2] he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [3] He was Vicar general of the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1790 to 1799; and Archdeacon of Killala from 1799 until his death in 1818. [4]
The Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral is the senior cleric of the Protestant St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, elected by the chapter of the cathedral. The office was created in 1219 or 1220, by one of several charters granted to the cathedral by Archbishop Henry de Loundres between 1218 and 1220.
Mordecai Cary (1687–1751) was Bishop of Killala and Achonry.
John Mason Harden, was an Irish bishop and educator who later served as Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1927 to 1931.
Joseph Stock (1740–1813) was an Irish Protestant churchman and writer, bishop of Killala and Achonry and afterwards bishop of Waterford and Lismore.
John Law (1745–1810) was an English mathematician and clergyman who began his career as a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and went on to become chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Church of Ireland bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh (1782–1787), Killala and Achonry (1787–1795), and finally of Elphin (1795–1810).
Thomas Elrington was an Irish academic and bishop. He was Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics (1790-1795) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). While at TCD he also served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1795–1799) and as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1799–1807). Later, he was Provost of Trinity College Dublin (1811-1820), then Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1820-1822), and finally Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin till his death in Liverpool in 1835.
Edward Synge, D.D., M.A., B.A. (1659–1741) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1705–1714), Bishop of Raphoe (1714–1716), and Archbishop of Tuam (1716–1741).
John Smith was an Irish Anglican priest in Ireland in the seventeenth century.
The Archdeacon of Achonry was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Achonry until 1622;Killala and Achonry from 1622 until 1834; and of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1834, although it has now been combined to include the area formerly served by the Archdeacon of Killala As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within his portion of the diocese. within the diocese. The Archdeaconry can trace its history back to Denis O'Miachain who in 1266 became bishop of the dioces to the last discrete incumbent George FitzHerbert McCormick.
James Verschoyle, LL.D. (1747–1834) was an Irish Anglican bishop.
Robert Plunket was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 19th-century.
Rev. Sir James Hutchinson (c.1731-1813) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Henry Cary (1717–1769) was the last surviving child of Rev Mordecai Cary, D.D., Bishop of Killala (1687–1751) and Catherine Courthorpe.
Martin Sherlock was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late Eighteenth century.
Theophilus Brocas, D.D. (1705–1770) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the Eighteenth century.
Peter Maturin was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century.
Thomas Thompson was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century.
Edward Edmund Burton (1737-1817) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Charles Ormsby Wiley was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries.
The Diocese of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe is a diocese of the Church of Ireland that is located in the west of Ireland. The diocese was formed by a merger of the former Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry and the former Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe in 2022, after the retirement of the separate dioceses' bishops and the appointment of Michael Burrows as bishop of the united diocese. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. It is one of the eleven Church of Ireland dioceses that cover the whole of Ireland. The largest diocese by area in the Church of Ireland, it covers all of counties Clare, Galway, Kerry, Limerick and Mayo, plus parts of counties Cork, Sligo, Roscommon, Offaly, Laois and Tipperary.