Archdeacon of Ardagh
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The Archdeacon of Ardagh was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Ardagh.[1] As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy[2] within the Diocese.[3]
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The archdeaconry can trace its history back to Joseph Magodaig who then became the Bishop of Ardagh.[4] The Archdeaconry is now combined with that of Elphin, one of two within the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh[5]
List of archdeacons
Previous holders include:
- 1683–1696 Andrew Charlton
- 1705–1747 Thomas Taylor
- 1751–1762 Robert Hort
- 1762–1778 John Oliver
- 1778–1790 Chambre Corker
- 1805–1820 Robert Beatty
- 1820–1839 Charles Le Poer Trench, a younger son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty,[6]
- 1839– Marcus Gervais Beresford, DD, PCi,[7]
- Thomas Carson, LL.D.,[8] later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1870 –1874[9]
- John Richard Darley DD, later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1874 –1884,[10]
- 1874–1891 Fitzmaurice Hunt
- 1891–1896 Frederic Potterton
- 1896–1915 William Moore, later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1915–1930.