Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry

An engraving of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam, as rebuilt in the 1870s and completed in 1878.

The Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry (also known as the United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry) is a diocese in the Church of Ireland located in Connacht; the western province of Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. Its geographical remit includes County Mayo and part of counties Galway and Sligo.

History

On 13 April 1834, the diocese of Killala and Achonry was united to the Archdiocese of Tuam. On the death of Archbishop Trench of Tuam in 1839, the Province of Tuam was united to the Province of Armagh and the see ceased to be an archbishopric and became a bishopric with Thomas Plunket becoming the first bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.^[1]

Cathedrals

Diocese Highlighted

The bishop has two episcopal seats (Cathedra):

• St. Mary's Cathedral, Tuam
• St. Patrick's Cathedral, Killala.^[2]

St. Crumnathy's Cathedral, Achonry was deconsecrated in 1998 and is now used for ecumenical events.^[3]

Parishes

The present diocese is divided into unions (or groups) of parishes.^[4]

Achonry Union: St. George's Church, Tubbercurry Rathbarron Church Aughaval Group: Holy Trinity Church, Achill Sound Christ Church, Castlebar St. Thomas' Church, Dugort St. Thomas' Church, Knappagh Turlough Church Holy Trinity Church, Westport Ballisodare Union: Holy Trinity Church, Ballisodare St. Paul's Church, Colloney Ballymote, Emlaghfad Galway & Kilcummin: St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway Kilcummin Church, Oughterard Killala Union: St. John's Church, Ballycastle St. Mary's Church, Crossmolina St. Patricks Cathedral, Killala

Kilmoremoy Union: St. Michael's, Ballina Killanley Church, Castleconnor St. Anne's Easkey Straid Church, Foxford Kilglass Church Omey Union: Christ Church, Clifden Holy Trinity Church, Errislannan St. Thomas' Church, Moyard St. Mary's Church, Roundstone Skreen Union: Christ Church, Dromard St. Mary's Church, Kilmacshalgan Skreen Church Tuam Union: St. John the Baptist's Church, Aasleagh St. Mary's Church, Cong St. Mary's Cathedral, Tuam

List of bishops

Hon. Thomas Plunket (1839–1866) Hon. Charles Brodrick Bernard (1867–1890) James O'Sullivan (1890–1913) Hon. Benjamin John Plunket (1913–1919) Arthur Edwin Ross (1920–1923) John Orr (1923–1927) John Mason Harden (1928–1931)

William Hardy Holmes (1932–1938) John Winthrop Crozier (1939–1957) Arthur Hamilton Butler (1958–1969) John Coote Duggan (1970–1985) John Robert Winder Neill (1986–1997) Richard Crosbie Aitken Henderson (1998–2011) Patrick William Rooke (2011–present) [5]

See also

• List of Anglican dioceses in the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Archdiocese of Tuam (Church of Ireland)
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Killala
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Achonry
• Dean of Tuam
• Archdeacon of Tuam

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 407. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
2. "The Cathedral Churches of Tuam, Killala and Achonry". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
3. "Ecumenical Carol Service in St Crumnathy's Cathedral, Achonry". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
4. The United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry
5. http://www.stpatricks-cathedral.org/2011/04/14/bishops-appoint-the-very-revd-patrick-rooke-as-new-bishop-of-tuam-killala-achonry/

External links

• Crockford's Clerical Directory - Listings