Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry

An engraving of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam, as rebuilt in the 1870s and completed in 1878.

The Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry (also known as the United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry) is a diocese in the Church of Ireland located in Connacht; the western province of Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. Its geographical remit includes County Mayo and part of counties Galway and Sligo.

History[]

On 13 April 1834, the diocese of Killala and Achonry was united to the Archdiocese of Tuam. On the death of Archbishop Trench of Tuam in 1839, the Province of Tuam was united to the Province of Armagh and the see ceased to be an archbishopric and became a bishopric with Thomas Plunket becoming the first bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.^[1]

Diocese Highlighted

The bishop has two episcopal seats (Cathedra):

St. Crumnathy's Cathedral, Achonry was deconsecrated in 1998 and is now used for ecumenical events.^[3]

The present diocese is divided into unions (or groups) of parishes.^[4]

Achonry Union:

Aughaval Group:

Ballisodare Union:

Galway & Kilcummin:

Killala Union:

Kilmoremoy Union:

Omey Union:

Skreen Union:

Tuam Union:

Hon. Thomas Plunket (1839–1866)
Hon. Charles Brodrick Bernard (1867–1890)
James O'Sullivan (1890–1913)
Hon. Benjamin John Plunket (1913–1919)
Arthur Edwin Ross (1920–1923)
John Orr (1923–1927)
John Mason Harden (1928–1931)

William Hardy Holmes (1932–1938)
John Winthrop Crozier (1939–1957)
Arthur Hamilton Butler (1958–1969)
John Coote Duggan (1970–1985)
John Robert Winder Neill (1986–1997)
Richard Crosbie Aitken Henderson (1998–2011)
Patrick William Rooke (2011–2021) ^[5]

^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 407. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
^ "The Cathedral Churches of Tuam, Killala and Achonry". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^ "Ecumenical Carol Service in St Crumnathy's Cathedral, Achonry". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^ "The United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry". Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2007.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

v t Church of Ireland dioceses
Province of Armagh	Armagh Clogher Connor Derry and Raphoe Down and Dromore Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Tuam, Killala and Achonry
Province of Dublin	Cashel and Ossory Cork, Cloyne and Ross Dublin and Glendalough Limerick and Killaloe Meath and Kildare

v t Office holders in the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry
Present	Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry Dean of Tuam Dean of Killala Dean of Achonry Provost of Tuam Archdeacon of Tuam Archdeacon of Killala and Achonry
Former	Archdeacon of Killala Archdeacon of Achonry