United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare Dioecesis Unitae Midensis et Kildarensis Deoisí Aontaithe na Mí agus Chill Dara | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Dublin and Cashel |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Cathedral | Trim Cathedral, Kildare Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Pat Storey, Bishop of Meath and Kildare |
| Website | |
| www.meathandkildare.org | |
The United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare is a diocese in the Church of Ireland located in the Republic of Ireland. The diocese is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin.[1] Alone of English and Irish bishops who are not also archbishops, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare is styled "The Most Reverend".[2]
The electoral college met in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on 28 May 2013 and no candidate put forward received the support of two-thirds of the electoral college voting in orders (lay and clergy). On 20 September 2013, it was announced that the House of Bishops (to whom the appointment had lapsed on the failure of the college's vote) had appointed as bishop-elect Pat Storey, who became the first woman to be a bishop in the Church of Ireland.[3][4]
- ^ History: Bishops of Kildare and Bishops of Meath Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 16 June 2009
- ^ Healy, John (1908). History of the Diocese of Meath (PDF). Vol. 2. Dublin. pp. 232–233.
The following statement, drawn up in 1876 by Sir J. Bernard Burke, Ulster King at Arms, will show the historical grounds on which the claim of Meath rested: Anciently Meath was one of the five provinces, and the seat of the chief monarch of Ireland. In 1152, Cardinal Paparo, Legate a latere, brought over four palliums, and assigned one to each of the four bishops, Armagh, Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam, erecting those Sees into archbishoprics. As some consolation to Meath, and in recognition of the former royal eminence of that province, the Bishop of Meath was styled Most Reverend, and given the first place among bishops primus inter pares. […] At the Reformation, the Protestant Church found the Bishop of Meath accorded the first place among bishops, and has ever since allowed that pre-eminence to the See.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Church of Ireland fails to elect bishop". RTÉ News. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
- ^ "Bishop Clarke". Diocese of Meath and Kildare. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.