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The Archbishop of Dublin (Irish: Ard-Easpag Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the head of the Archdiocese of Dublin in the Catholic Church, responsible for its spiritual and administrative needs. The office has existed since 1152, in succession to a regular bishopric (subject to Canterbury, and within the wider jurisdiction of Glendalough) since 1028.
The Province of Dublin is one of four ecclesiastical provinces that together form the Catholic Church in Ireland; the other provinces are Armagh, Tuam and Cashel.The geographical remit of the province includes the city of Dublin, all of the historical County Dublin (counties Fingal, South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown), most of County Wicklow, and fragments of counties Kildare, Carlow ...
One archdiocese and three dioceses straddle the international border; two dioceses are wholly in Northern Ireland. Metropolitan Archdiocese of Armagh (includes parts of counties Armagh, Louth, Londonderry and Tyrone) Diocese of Clogher (includes parts of counties Tyrone, Fermanagh and Monaghan)
In 1975, the archdiocese comprised 163 parishes, but as of 2009, the number of parishes had risen to 200. One of these parishes is non-territorial, providing services to the Traveller community . The other 199 parishes had been grouped into sixteen deaneries since 2004, with pastoral responsibility for each of these deaneries resting with a ...
The Archbishop of Dublin (Irish: Ard-Easpag Bhaile Átha Cliath) is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name from Dublin, Ireland. Since the Reformation , there have been parallel apostolic successions to the title: one in the Catholic Church and the other in the Church of Ireland .
The Dublin area was Christian long before Dublin had a distinct diocese. The remains and memory of monasteries famous before that time, at Finglas , Glasnevin , Glendalough , Kilnamanagh, Rathmichael, Swords , Tallaght , among others, are witness to the faith of earlier generations and to a flourishing Church life in their time.
In the Archdiocese of Dublin: . St Mary's Pro-Cathedral; Chapel Royal, Dublin; Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Ballyfermot; Church of the Assumption, Booterstown; Church of the Assumption, Howth
It is one of three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin and is subject to the Archdiocese of Dublin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On 7 May 2013, Denis Nulty was appointed bishop of the diocese.