Diocese of Waterford and Lismore

DIOCESE OF WATERFORD AND LISMORE (Dioecesis Vaterfordiensis et Lismoriensis)

Country : Ireland
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 1363 after the merger of the Diocese of Waterford with the Diocese of Lismore

Official blazon

Combined sghields : Waterford: Azure a bishop in full pontificals proper holding a latin cross or. Lismore: Gules , a latin cross couped or between in base at dexter a rose argetn and at sinister a fountain.

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Arms of Bishops

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  Thomas le Reve (1363-1393)

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  Robert Read (1394-1396)

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  Thomas Sparkford (1396-1397)

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  John Deping (1397-1400)

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  Thomas Snell (1400-1405)

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  Roger Appleby (1405-1409)

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  John Geese (1409-1414)

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  Thomas Colby (1414-1422)

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  John Geese (1422-1425)

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  Richard Cantwell (1426-1446)

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  Robert Poer (1446-1471)

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  Richard Martin (1472-1474)

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  John Bulcomb (1475-1479)

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  Nicol Ó hAoncghusa (1480-1481)

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  Thomas Purcell (1486-1517)

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  Nicholas Comyn (1519-1547)

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  John MacGrath (1548-1551)

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  Patrick Walsh (1553-1578)

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  Patrick Comerford (1628-1652)

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  John Brennan (1671-1693)

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  Richard Piers (1696-1739)

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  Sylvester Louis Lloyd (1739-1750)

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  Peter Creagh (1750-1774)

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  William Egan (1774-1796)

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  Thomas Hussey (1797-1803)

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  John Power I (1804-1816)

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  Robert Walsh (1817-1821)

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  Patrick Kelly (1822-1829)

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  William Abraham (1829-1837)

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  Nicholas Foran (1837-1855)

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  Dominic O’Brien (1855-1873)

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  John Power II (1873-1887)

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  Piers Power (1887-1889)

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  John Egan (1889-1891)

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  Richard Alfred Sheehan (1891-1915)

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  Bernard Hackett (1916-1932)

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  Jeremiah Kinane (1932-1943)

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  Daniel Cohalan (1943-1965)

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  Michael Russell (1965-1993)

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  William Lee (1993-2013)

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  Alphonsus Cullinan (2015-present)

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