Kenneth Herbert Clarke (born 23 May 1949) is the former Mission Director of SAMS UK & Ireland. He was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 2001 until 2012.
Clarke grew up in Holywood, Co. Down, Northern Ireland and was educated at Sullivan Upper School and Trinity College, Dublin, [1] and ordained in 1972, his first posts were curacies at Magheralin and Dundonald. [2] He then served as a missionary in Chile, following which he was Rector of Crinken Church, Dublin, [3] and then Rector of Coleraine and Archdeacon of Dalriada before elevation to the episcopate as the 17th bishop of the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh in the Church of Ireland.[ citation needed ]
Bishop Clarke is married to Helen and they have four daughters. [4]
Bishop Clarke became a patron of the Iona Institute in 2014. [5] [6] He is a supporter and patron of the New Wine Group.[ citation needed ]
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The Bishop of Ardagh was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the village of Ardagh, County Longford in the Republic of Ireland. It was used by the Roman Catholic Church until 1756, and intermittently by the Church of Ireland until 1839.
The United Dioceses of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh is a diocese of the Church of Ireland located in central Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh.
The Bishop of Kilmore is an episcopal title which takes its name after the parish of Kilmore, County Cavan in Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.
Marcus Gervais Beresford was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1854 to 1862 and Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1862 until his death.
Arthur William Barton was a Church of Ireland clergyman, from 1939 Archbishop of Dublin.
The Bishop of Elphin is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.
The Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh is the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh in the Province of Armagh.
Albert Edward Hughes was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1939 to 1950.
William Gilbert Wilson was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1981 to 1993.
Michael Hugh Gunton Mayes was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1993 to 2000 and then of Limerick and Killaloe until 2008.
Charles John Tyndall DD was the 13th Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh who was later translated to Derry and Raphoe.
John Richard Darley, a "man who laboured strenuously to awaken and sustain the practical interest of the clergy and laity", was a 19th-century Irish Anglican bishop.
The Rt Rev William Richard Moore was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1915 to 1930.
James Edward Moore was an Irish bishop in the Church of Ireland.
Samuel Ferran Glenfield is an Irish Anglican bishop. Glenfield is the current Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.
The Archdeacon of Ardagh was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Ardagh. As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the Diocese.
St Mary's Cathedral, Elphin, is a former cathedral in Ireland.
Cecil Charles Wyndham Browne was an Anglican priest in Ireland, most notably Dean of Elphin and Ardagh from 1967 to 1983.
Episcopal Chapel and Asylum for Penitent Females, was Protestant "Magdalene" asylum for "fallen women" and an Episcopal Chapel on Upper Baggot Street in Dublin. It was on the corner of Baggot Street and Waterloo Road, in Dublin, the asylum could accommodate 50 penitent women and the chapel could accommodate 1,200 worshipers, it was run by a committee of benevolent donors, it was built between 1832 and 1835, it opened in 1835 and closed in 1945.