Dean of Killala

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The Dean of Killala is based at the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Killala in the Diocese of Killala within the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry of the Church of Ireland. The Cathedral Church of St Crumnathy, Achonry, was closed in 1997. The Chapters of Killala & Achonry were amalgamated in 2013; The Cathedral of St Patrick, Killala, becoming also the diocesan Cathedral of Achonry. The Dean of Killala is the Very Revd Alistair Grimason, also Dean of Tuam.

List of Deans of Killala

1613: William Flanagan

1628/9–1635: William Buchanan (afterwards Dean of Achonry, 1635)

1635: Robert Forgie

1664: Henry Dodwell

1674: Alexander Murray

1701–1718: Francis Knapp

1718–1724: Jonathan Smedley (afterwards Dean of Clogher, 1724)

1724–?1741: Peter Maturin (died 1741)

1741–1770: Theophilus Brocas

1770–1795: John Brocas

1795: Thomas Vesey Dawson

1796–1799: Thomas Thompson

1800–1805: Walter Blake Kirwan

1806–1817: Edmund Burton

1817–1844: Hon George Saunders Gore

1844–1871: James Collins

1871–?1885: William Jackson

1885–1903: William Skipton

1903–?1904: William Oliver Jackson (died 1904)

1904–?1911: C. Ormsby Wiley

1911–?1915: George Henry Croly

1915–1927: Theophilus Patrick Landey

>1963–? Herbert Friedrich Friess (died 1997)

?–?1975 John Ernest Leeman (died 1975)

1976–1979: John Henry Hodgins

1979–1989: Malcolm Frederick Graham

1989–2003: Edward George Ardis

2003–2007: Sue Patterson

2007–2012: vacant

2012–2013 Wendy Mary Callan

2013-Present Alistair Grimason

References

Dean of Killala Wikipedia

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