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Unusually, St Patrick's is not the seat of a bishop, as the Archbishop of Dublin has his seat in Christ Church Cathedral. Since 1870, the Church of Ireland has designated St Patrick's as the national cathedral for the whole of Ireland, drawing chapter members from each of the 12 dioceses of the Church of Ireland.
Cathedral memorial to the 16th-century dean Thomas Jones. The Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral is the senior cleric of the Protestant St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, elected by the chapter of the cathedral. The office was created in 1219 or 1220, by one of several charters granted to the cathedral by Archbishop Henry de Loundres between 1218 and ...
From 1995 to 1999 he was Rector of St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway and Provost of Tuam. He has been a member of the chapter since 1994, as the Prebendary of Monmohenock. He was elected Dean of St Patrick's in 1999. Robert MacCarthy retired from his position as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral on 25 January 2012. [1]
William Wright Morton DL [1] has been Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin [2] since 2016. [3]Born in 1956 he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained in 1989. . After a curacy at Drumachose he was the incumbent at Conwal before being appointed Dean of Derry in 1
The Metropolitan Chapter still exists. While the Church of Ireland had two Chapters for many years, the Roman Church has only one, descended from that of St. Patrick's Cathedral, as Christ Church was reconstituted without papal authority, in 1539–1541. The members of the Chapter today have a ceremonial and advisory role.
It consisted of a plot of land which was set apart by the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1666 for the purposes of a cemetery for the inhabitants of St. Patrick's Close and of the parish of St. Nicholas Without, as their cemetery had become overcrowded.
c.1296–1301 – Adam de Balsham, elected Archbishop of Dublin in 1299 by the Cathedral chapter, while the chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral chose another candidate, Thomas de Chaddesworth, but both were refused confirmation as Archbishop by the Pope, and forced to stand down in favour of Richard de Ferings. Removed from office 1301.
This episode ended with a late document of Queen Mary's reign, a deed dated 27 April 1558, comprising a release or receipt by Thomas Leverous, dean, and the chapter of St Patrick's, of the "goods, chattels, musical instruments, etc." belonging to that cathedral and which had been in the possession of the dean and chapter of Christ Church.