Dean of Raphoe

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The Dean of Raphoe is based at Cathedral Church of St. Eunan, Raphoe, County Donegal, Ulster in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe within the Church of Ireland. The current dean is The Very Revd Arthur Barrett, previously a Canon of St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen, and Rector of Rossorry Parish Church, the second largest parish in the Diocese of Clogher (Church of Ireland).

List of deans

1603 John Albright

1609 Phelim O'Doghertie

1622–1630 Archibald Adair (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1630)

1630–1660 Alexander Cunningham

1660/1–1661 John Leslie (afterwards Bishop of Clogher, 1661)

1661–1670 John Wellwood

1670–1671 Ezekiel Hopkins (afterwards Bishop of Raphoe, 1671)

1671 Thomas Buttolph

1676–1683 Capel Wiseman (afterwards Bishop of Dromore, 1683)

1683/4–1691/2 Nathaniel Wilson (afterwards Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, 1691/2)

1691/2–1725 John Trench

1725–1742/3 William Cotterel (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1742/3)

1742/3–1744 Arthur Smyth (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1744)

1744–1756 Anthony Thompson

1757–1776 William Barker

1776–1776 Thomas Bray

1776–1795 James King

1795–1832 Richard Allott

1832–1873 Edward Chichester

1873-1882 John Gwynn (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1882)

1882–1897 Edward Bowen (died 1897)

1897–1897 Michael B. Cox

1897– Richard Bennett

1900– Richard M. Baillie

1903– Joseph Potter

1905–1916 William George Kennedy

1917–1919 John Pirrie-Conerney

John Watson (died 1938)

Cyril James Homan (retired 1959)

1962–1967 George Good (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1967)

1967–1972 Stephen Arthur Cave

1980–1992 Samuel William Reede

1992–2003 Stephen White (afterwards Dean of Killaloe, 2003)

2003-2013 John Hay

2014–present Arthur Barrett

References

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