Saint Molaiseof Leighlin, also Laisrén or Laserian, was an early Irish saint and abbot of Lethglenn or Leithglenn, now Old Leighlin in Co. Carlow, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th and 7th centuries.
Narcissus Marsh was an English clergyman who was successively Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, Archbishop of Cashel, Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh.
Henry Robert McAdoo was a Church of Ireland clergyman.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin is a Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Ireland. It is one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin and is subject to the Archdiocese of Dublin. On 7 May 2013, the Most Reverend Denis Nulty was appointed bishop-elect of the diocese.
The Brigidine Sisters are a global Roman Catholic congregation, founded by Bishop Daniel Delany in Tullow, Ireland on February 1, 1807. The sisters' apostolate is education.
Events from the year 1678 in Ireland.
The Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, one of the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Dublin. The episcopal title takes its name from the towns of Kildare and Old Leighlin in the province of Leinster, Ireland.
The Bishop of Kildare was an episcopal title which took its name after the town of Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland. The title is no longer in use by any of the main Christian churches having been united with other bishoprics. In the Roman Catholic Church, the title has been merged with that of the bishopric of Leighlin and is currently held by the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. In the Church of Ireland, the title has been merged with that of the bishopric of Meath and is currently held by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare.
The Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin was the Ordinary of Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns and Leighlin in the Province of Dublin. The diocese comprised all of counties Wexford and Carlow and part of counties Wicklow and Laois in Republic of Ireland.
The Bishop of Leighlin was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the small town of Old Leighlin in County Carlow, Republic of Ireland.
The United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory is a diocese of the Church of Ireland in the south-eastern part of Ireland that was formed from a merger of older dioceses in 1977. The diocese is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin.
John Percy Phair was a 20th-century Anglican bishop.
Ford Tichborne (1862–1940) was a 20th-century Anglican priest.
St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin, previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Leighlin, is now one of the six cathedral churches in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory of the Church of Ireland. It is situated on the site of a mediaeval monastery in the village of Old Leighlin, County Carlow, Ireland, some 12 km south of Carlow town in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin.
Very Rev. Patrick Lennon DD was an Irish priest who served as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.
Denis Nulty is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland.
Thomas William (Tom) Gordon is the current Dean of Leighlin.
Hubert Henry Ernest Peacock (1913-1995) was Dean of Leighlin from 1983 until 1988.
Alexander Colles Nevill (1912–2003) was the Archdeacon of Ossory and Leighlin from 1951 until 1962.
John Richard Hedges Becher was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
