Dean of Leighlin

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The Dean of Leighlin is based at the Cathedral Church of St Laserian, Old Leighlin in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland.

The current incumbent is Thomas W. Gordon.

List of Deans of Leighlin

1603/4–1614 Thomas Tedder

1614–1618 Randolph Barlow (afterwards Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, 1618 and Archbishop of Tuam 1629)

1618–1637 John Parker

1637–1639 Hugh Cressy (later converted to Roman Catholicism as Serenus Cressy)

1665/6–1668 John Nearne

1668–1671 George Burdett

1671/2 Samuel Burgess

1691 or 1692 Noah Webbe

1695/6–1723 John Francis

1723 William Crosse

1749–1753 Bartholemew Vigors

1755–1764 John Featherston

1765–1777 Charles Doyne

1777–1778 Richard Stewart

1778–1804 Stewart Blacker

1804–1822 George Maunsell

1822–1850 Hon Richard Boyle Bernard

1850–1854 Hugh Usher Tighe (afterwards Dean of Ardagh, 1854)

1854–1864 James Lyster (afterwards Dean of Ontario, 1864)

1864–1869 William Bernard Lauder

1868–1876 Francis Metcalf Watson

Philip Moore

?–1890 William Smyth King

?-?1895 Frederick Owen

1895-1912 John Finlay (murdered, 1921)

1912–1939 Joseph William Abbott

1962–1963 Henry McAdoo (Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, 1962)

1963–1983 Frederick Rothwell Bolton

1983–1988 Hubert Henry Ernest Peacock

1991–1996 Cecil Albert Faull

2004–2010 Frederick John Gordon Wynne

2010–present Thomas William Gordon

References

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