Dean of Kilkenny

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The Dean of Kilkenny or Dean of Ossory is based at The Cathedral Church of St Canice, Kilkenny in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland.

The current incumbent is Katherine M. Poulton

List of Deans of Kilkenny

1547–1552 James Bicton

1552–1555 Thomas Lancaster (also Bishop of Kildare, deprived 1555)

1559–1581 William Johnson

1582 David Cleere

1603–1610 Richard Deane (afterwards Bishop of Ossory

1610–1612 John Todd (also Bishop of Down and Connor 1607–1612)

1612 Barnabas Boulger

1617 Absolom Gethin

1621 Jenkin Mayes

1661–1661 Charles Curren

1661–1666 Thomas Ledisham (afterwards Dean of Waterford)

1666–1667/8 Daniel Neyland

1667/8 Joseph Teate

1670/1-1673 Thomas Hill

1673/4-1674/5 Benjamin Parry (afterwards Dean of St Patrick's and Bishop of Ossory 1677)

1674/5–1697 John Pooley (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne 1697)

1702/3–1747 Robert Mossom

1747–1753 Robert Watts

1755–1783 John Lewis

1784–1795 Thomas Pack

1795–1843 Hon Joseph Bourke

1877–1901 Thomas Hare

1901–?1905 James Lyons

1905–1908 Maurice Day (afterwards Bishop of Clogher 1908)

1908–1923 Thomas Edward Winder

1923–1940 John Percy Phair (afterwards Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1940)

1940–?1950 James Henry Burrows

1950–1957 George Seaver

?1957–1959 Robert Pike (afterwards Bishop of Meath, 1959)

1959–1969 John George Gash

1970–1991 Brian Harvey

1991–2010 Norman Lynas

2010–present Katharine M Poulton

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