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7 unusual facts about Church of Ireland


Catholic Defence Association

As Secretary he engaged in a correspondence on Church of Ireland proselytizing which was published as Proselytism in Ireland: the Catholic Defence Association versus the Irish Church Missions on the charge of bribery and intimidation; a correspondence between the Rev. Alex Dallas and the Rev. Henry Wilberforce (1852).

Church of Ireland

This practice has been broken only once when, in 1999, the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree near Portadown.

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff

He was a Roman Catholic and supported the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and was vaguely sympathetic to the Home Rule movement, but this could not prevent his defeat by a Home Rule candidate in the 1874 General Election.

Kilmichael Ambush

In 1926, on behalf of the Guthrie family, Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Minister for Home Affairs, interceded with the local IRA, after which Guthrie's remains were disinterred and buried in the Church of Ireland graveyard at Macroom.

Rathcormac massacre

Since 1830, Catholic peasants or tenant farmers across much of Ireland had been withholding the tithes they were obliged to pay to the vicar of the local Anglican Church of Ireland parish.

Seán Mac Eoin

In June 1921 Wilson was petitioned for clemency by MacEoin's mother (who referred to her son as "John" in her letter), by his own brother Jemmy, and by the local Church of Ireland vicar, and passed on the appeals out of respect for the latter two individuals.

Style of the British sovereign

In 1535 Henry added "of the Church of England in Earth, under Jesus Christ, Supreme Head" to his style in 1535; a reference to the Church of Ireland was added in 1536.


Ardbraccan

When, in the aftermath of the crisis over Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the Irish Church was ordered to formally break its link with the Roman Catholic Church to become the Church of Ireland, the Anglican or Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath continued to live in Ardbraccan in an estate attached to the main church.

Arthur Warren Darley

Arthur was also a church organist who spent some time as a Church of Ireland organist near Bruckless, County Donegal, where he spent some time with the great Donegal fiddler, John Doherty.

Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe

The Bishop of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert or the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe (Full title: Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh and Emly) is the Church of Ireland Ordinary of the united Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe in the Province of Dublin.

Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe

The Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, which was in the Province of Cashel until 1833, then afterwards in the Province of Dublin.

Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin

The Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in the Ecclesiastical Province of Dublin.

Charles Cobbe

Charles Cobbe (Swarraton, 1686–1765) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765, and as such was Primate of Ireland.

Civil parishes in Ireland

It came into existence in Ireland in the 12th and 13th centuries and was continued by the Church of Ireland, the established church, from the time of the Tudor conquest.

Conradh na Gaeilge

The English text reads "This Association has been founded solely to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland. If you wish the Irish Language to live on the lips of Irishmen, help this effort according to your ability!"Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde, the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O'Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O'Neill Russell and others.

Donagh MacDonagh

His parents' families then engaged in a series of custody lawsuits, as the MacDonaghs were Roman Catholic and the Giffords were Protestant; in the climate of Ne Temere, the MacDonaghs were successful.

Heidi Bedell

She was married to Trevor Sargent, TD, the former leader of the Irish Green Party, and like him is a member of the Church of Ireland but they divorced in 2013.

Henrietta Street

The street was popularly referred to as Primate's Hill, as one of the houses was owned by the Archbishop of Armagh, although this house, along with two others, was demolished to make way for the Law Library of King's Inns.

Irish Parliamentary Party

Gladstone said his mission was to pacify Ireland and with the Irish Church Act 1869 began with the disestablishment of the Anglican Church of Ireland whose members were a minority who made all political decisions in Ireland and would have largely voted Conservative.

John Gifford Bellett

It was in Dublin that, as a layman, he first became acquainted with John Nelson Darby, then a minister in the established Church of Ireland, and in 1829 the pair began meeting with others such as Edward Cronin and Francis Hutchinson for communion and prayer.

Katherine Plunket

Her father Thomas Plunket, 2nd Baron Plunket (1792–1866), was a junior Church of Ireland clergyman when she was born and later became the Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.

Killyleagh

Reverend Edward Hincks, a renowned Assyriologist and Egyptologist, was appointed Church of Ireland rector of Killyleagh in 1825, an office he was to hold for the remaining forty-one years of his life.

Laetitia Pilkington

She married Matthew Pilkington in 1725, a rising priest in the Church of Ireland, and the couple were introduced to Jonathan Swift at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1725.

Leon Chechemian

His efforts were supported by William C. Plunket, a baron who was Primate of the Church of Ireland and Archbishop of Dublin.

Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon

Trevor was the son of Sir Edward Trevor of Rostrevor, County Down, and of Brynkinalt Hall, near Chirk in Denbighshire, by his marriage to Rose Ussher, a daughter of Henry Ussher (ca. 1550–1613), Archbishop of Armagh.

Myshall

The Church of Ireland Adelaide Memorial Church of Christ the Redeemer in Myshall is a miniature of Salisbury Cathedral.

Oxford Movement

The immediate impetus for the movement was a perceived attack by the reforming Whig administration on the structure and revenues of the established church in Ireland, with the Irish Church Temporalities Bill (1833).

Pat Storey

She became the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in the Church of Ireland (Anglican) in 2013.

Peter Drelincourt

He was buried in the Armagh Cathedral, where a fine monument by Rysbrach was erected by his widow to his memory.

Power Le Poer Trench

In the history of the Irish church Trench chiefly deserves to be remembered for his activity in promoting the remarkable evangelical movement in the west of Ireland which was known in Connaught as the Second Reformation, and which, chiefly through the agency of the Irish Society, made a vigorous effort to win converts to Protestantism.

Rathmullan

In 1617 the Friary was occupied by the Protestant Bishop of Raphoe, The Rt. Rev. Dr. Andrew Knox, who turned it into a Lough Swilly from a possible French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam

With the English Reformation, church property was forfeited by the state and transferred to the official state religion - the Church of Ireland.

St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall

He later became vicar of Halifax, then Bishop of Meath, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Archbishop of Dublin.

Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry

He is believed to have joined the United Irishmen in 1793, shortly before his father Nicholas Lawless, a wool-merchant turned banker who converted from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland and became the first Lord Cloncurry, took charge of Lyons House.


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Andrew Fitzgerald

He was born in 1763 to James FitzGerald and Mary Fitzgerald (née Knarsborough) in High Street, Kilkenny City, he went to school in the Church of Ireland run Kilkenny College and at the age of 16 went to study in the University of Louvain becoming a Dominican friar.

Archdiocese of Tuam

Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, present-day successor to the Church of Ireland archdiocese

Bethany Home

The superintendent of the Church of Ireland's Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, the Revd T.C. Hammond, was a member of the home's managing committee.

Charles Brett

His church memorial is located along those of his family in the Comber Church of Ireland Parish Church of St. Mary, in Comber, North County Down.

Cork Cathedral

Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, a Church of Ireland cathedral, often known locally as South Cathedral

Diocese of Clogher

Bishop of Clogher, the pre-Reformation, Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic bishops

Diocese of Killala

Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, a Church of Ireland diocese in the west of Ireland.

Dublin Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland national cathedral in Dublin, Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland cathedral of the Diocese of Dublin

Dúnán

It is highly probable that this deference to the Archbishop of Canterbury may have had something to do with the claim put forward by the latter in a synod held in 1072, two years before Dunan's death, in which, on the supposed authority of Bede, he asserted his supremacy over the church of Ireland — a claim which Dunan's successor admitted in the most explicit manner at his consecration in Canterbury Cathedral.

Eliza and Isabella Riddel

Governors of the permanent committee included the mayor of Belfast, the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and five elected 'lady graduate governors' including F W Rea, one of the earliest women lecturers at Queen's, and Marion Andrews and Elizabeth Bell, two of the earliest women to qualify in medicine in Ireland.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

These were not fully repealed until 1869, (when the Church of Ireland was finally disestablished), although Irish tithes were commuted after the Tithe War (1831–1836).

Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland

In November of that same year, the Church of Ireland transferred another of its defunct churches, in Ranelagh, for Greek Orthodox use.

St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh

The original thirteenth century cathedral of the diocese, situated in the small east Cork town of Cloyne, was owned by the Church of Ireland.

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.

St Stephen's Church, Dublin

It was originally conceived as a chapel-of-ease for the parish of St. Peter's, which was the largest Church of Ireland parish in Dublin.

St. Kevin's Church, Camden Row, Dublin

After the Reformation the parish of St. Kevin was administered by the Church of Ireland; it stretched as far south as present-day Rathmines and Harold's Cross.

St. Mary's Church, Kilmore, County Wexford

Mary's Church of Ireland Church is the parish church of Kilmore, County Wexford in the southeast of Ireland.

St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin

Werburgh's Church is a Church of Ireland church in Dublin, Ireland, and was built in 1178, shortly after the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the town, and named after St. Werburgh, abbess of Ely and patron saint of Chester who died in 699 AD.

Taney

Taney Parish, a Church of Ireland community in south Dublin, Ireland

Thomas Leslie Teevan

In 1950, a vacancy arose in the Belfast West constituency, owing to the disqualification of the Reverend James MacManaway for being an Anglican priest despite the Church of Ireland being disestablished.

Uilleann pipes

As late as the 19th century the instrument was still commonly associated with the Anglo-Irish, e.g. the Anglican clergyman Canon James Goodman (1828–1896) from Kerry, who interestingly had his uilleann pipes buried with him at Creagh (Church of Ireland) cemetery near Baltimore, County Cork.

William Plunkett

William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828 – 1897), Church of Ireland Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and Archbishop of Dublin