Bishops through the ages

Saint Fin Barre and Saint Colman (window in the Cathedral Church of Saint Colman, Cloyne)

The Episcopal Succession – Cork, Cloyne & Ross

BISHOPS OF CORK		BISHOPS OF CLOYNE		BISHOPS OF ROSS
Name	Year	Name	Year	Name	Year
Donnell	876	Reachtaigh	887	Nechtan Mac Nechtain	1160
Soer Bhreatach	892	Gilla na Naem	1148	Isaac O’Cowen	1161
Dubhdhurn O’Stefam	959	O’Muircheartaigh (Nehemias)	1159	O’Carroll	1168
Cathmogh	969	Ua Dubcroin	1167	Benedictus	1177
Mugron O’Mutan	1057	Ua Flannacain	1177	Mauricius	1192
Gregory Ua Menngorain	1138	Matthaeus Ua Mongaig	1201	Daniel	1198
Gilla Aedha Ua Maigin	1148	Laurence Ua Suillebain C.	1205	Fineen O’Clothna (Florentius)	1224
Gregorius O h-Aedha (O’Hea)	1174	Luke	1211	Malachy	c1250
Reginaldus i	1182	Florence	1224	Mauricius	1254
Aicher	1187	Daniel	1226	Walter O’ Mithigein	1269
Murchad Ua h-Aedha	1192	David Mac Cellaig	1237	Peter O h-Uallachain (Patrick)	1275
Anonymous	1214	Ailinn O suilleabai	1240	Laurentius	1291
Mairin Ua Briain (Marianus)	1215	Daniel	1247	Matthaeus O Finn	1310
Gilbertus	1225	Reginaldus	1265	Laurentius O h-Uallachain	1331
Laurentius	1248	Alan O Longain	1274	Dionysius	1336
William of Jerpoint	1265	Nicholas of Effingham	1284	Bernard O Conchobhair	1379
Reginaldus	1267	Maurice O Solchain	1323	Peter Curragh	1399
Robert Mac Donnchada	1277	John Brid	1333	Thadeus O Ceallaigh	1400
Seoan Mac Cearbaill (Mac Carwill)	1302	John Whitekot	1351	Mac Raith OhEidirsgeoil	1401
Philip of Slane	1321	John Swaffham	1363	Stephen Brown	1402
Walter le Rede	1327	Richard Wye	1376	Matthew	1403
John of Ballyconingham	1330	Gerard Caneton	1394	Walter Formay	1418
John Roche	1347	Adam Payn	1413	John Bloxworth	1426
Gerald de Barri	1359			Conchobhar Mac Fhaolchadha	1428
Roger Ellesmere	1396	United to Cork	1586-1638	Maurice Brown	1431
Richard Kynmoure	1406			Walter of Leicester	1431
Patrick Fox	1409	George Synge	1638	Richard Clerk	1434
Milo fitzJohn	1409	See vacant 1652 to 1661		Domhnall O Donnobhain	1448
Adam Payn	1418	Held by the Bishops of Cork	1661-1678	John	1460
John Paston	1425			Robert Colynson	1460
Jordan Purcell	1429	Patrick Sheridan	1679	Thomas	1464
William Roche (Coadjutor)	1463	Edward Jones	1683	John Hornse alias Skipton	1464
Gerald Fitzgerald	1472	William Palliser	1693	Aodh O hEidirsgeoil (Odo)	1473
Tadhg Mac Carthaigh	1490	Tobias Pullein	1694	Tadhg Mac Carthaigh	1482
John FitzEdmund FitzGerald	1499	St. John Ashe	1695	John Edmund Courci	1494
Patrick Cant	1499	Charles Crow	1702	Seaan O Muirthile	1517
John Benet	1523	Henry Maule	1726	Tadgh O Raghallaigh (Thaddeus)	1519
Dominic Tyrre (Tirrey)	1536	Edward Synge	1732	Bonoventura	1523
Roger Skiddy	1562 -66	George Berkeley	1734	Diarmaid Mac Carthaigh	1526
Richard Dyxon	1570	James Stopford	1753	Dermot McDonnell	1544
Matthew Sheyn	1572	Robert Johnson	1759	John	1551
		Frederick Augustus Hervey	1767	Maurice O’Fihelly	1554
Ross United to Cork	1583	Charles Agar	1768	Maurice O’Hea	1559
		George Chinnery	1780	Thomas O’Herlihy	1561
William Lyon Cloyne added in 1586	1583	Richard Woodward	1781	William Lyon	1582
John Boyle	1618	William Bennett	1794
Richard Boyle	1620	Charles Mongan Warburton	1820	Ross United to Cork ‘in commendam’	1583
Cloyne again separated: Bishops of Cork and Ross William Chappell until 1649. See vacant from 1649 to 1661	1638	John Brinkley	1826	Ross United to Cork	1586
Michael Boyle	1661
Edward Synge	1663
Edward Wetenhall	1679
Dive Downes	1699
Peter Brown	1710
Robert Clayton	1735
Jemmett Browne	1745
Isaac Mann	1772
Euseby Cleaver	1789
William Foster	1789
William Bennett	1790
Thomas Stopford	1794
John George Beresford	1805
Thomas St. Laurence	1807
Samuel Kyle	1831

Cloyne United to Cork	1835


Bishops of Cork, Cloyne and Ross		Cloyne United to Cork on the death of Bishop Brinkley	1835
James Wilson	1848
William Fitzgerald	1857
John Gregg	1862
Robert Samuel Gregg	1878
William Edward Meade	1894
Charles Benjamin Dowse	1912
William Edward Flewett	1933
Robert Thomas Hearn	1938
George Otto Simms	1952
Richard Gordon Perdue	1957
Samuel Greenfield Poyntz	1978
Robert Alexander Warke	1988
William Paul Colton	1999

Three successive Bishops of Cork Cloyne and Ross: l-r Bishop Roy Warke (1988 to 1999); the current Bishop, Paul Colton (since 1999); and Bishop Samuel Poyntz (1978 to 1987).

Three successive Bishops of Cork Cloyne and Ross together: l-r Bishop Roy Warke (1988 to 1999); the current Bishop, Paul Colton (since 1999); and Bishop Samuel Poyntz (1978 to 1987).

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