Dean of Waterford

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The Dean of Waterford in the United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory in the Church of Ireland is the dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford.

The incumbent is Maria Jannson

List of Deans of Waterford

?–1223 William Wace (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1223)

?–1252 Philip (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1252)

?–1286 Walter de Fulburn (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1286)

1308 David le Waleys

?–1323 Nicholas Welifed (afterwards Bishop of Waterford 1323)

1365 Walter la Reve

1372 Lucas de Londres

1379 Jo. Reder

1395 Walter de Ludlow

1396 William Whyte

1481 Robert Bron or Brown

1522–1547 Robert Lombard

1547–1566 Patrick Walsh (made Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 1551, retaining deanery in commendam until 1566)

1566–1570 Peter White (dispossessed for nonconformity)

1570–? David Cleere

1603–1620 Richard Boyle (also Archdeacon of Limerick and Dean of Tuam and afterwards Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1620)

1621 Henry Sutton

1622/3 Anthony Martin

1625 Richard Jones (afterwards Dean of Elphin, 1634)

1634–1635 Thomas Gray (afterwards Dean of Ardfert

1635–1637 James Margetson (afterwards Dean of Derry)

1637/8–1640 Edward Parry (afterwards Dean of Lismore)

1640 Gervase Thorpe

1661/2 Thomas Potter

1666 Thomas Ledisham

1671 Daniel Burston

1678 Arthur Stanhope (also Archdeacon of Lismore)

1685–1689 Thomas Wallis (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1690/1)

1691/2 John Dalton

1697 John Eeles (also Archdeacon of Lismore)

1722/3–1758 Hugh Bolton

1759–1784 Cutts Harman

1784–1804 Christopher Butson (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh 1804)

1804–1804 William Cole (died 1804)

1804–1850 Usher Lee

1850 Thomas Townsend (afterwards Bishop of Meath 1850)

1850–1877 Edward Hoare

1877–1903 John Morgan

1904–1913 Henry Hackett

1913–1916 Maurice Day

1916–1919 Robert Miller (afterwards Bishop of Cashel and Waterford 1919)

1919 George Mayers

c.1968 Fergus William Day (died 1996)

1998–2002 Peter Barrett (afterwards Bishop of Cashel and Ossory 2002}

2003–2011 Trevor R. Lester

2011–present Maria Jannsen

References

Dean of Waterford Wikipedia

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