Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
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Country | Ireland |
Ecclesiastical province | Cashel |
Metropolitan bishopric | Cashel |
Diocesan bishop | Kieran O'Reilly SMA |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Dermot Clifford |
Vicar General | Matthew McGrath Christy O'Dwyer |
founding | 18th century |
surface | 3,082 km² |
Parishes | 46 (2006) |
Residents | 80,711 (2006) |
Catholics | 79,921 (2006) |
proportion of | 99% |
Diocesan priest | 99 (2006) |
Religious priest | 60 (2006) |
Catholics per priest | 503 |
Friars | 92 (2006) |
Religious sisters | 156 (2006) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Assumption Cathedral of Thurles |
Website | www.cashel-emly.ie |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Cloyne Diocese of Cork and Ross Diocese of Kerry Diocese of Killaloe Diocese of Limerick Diocese of Waterford and Lismore |
Ecclesiastical province | |
Archdiocese of Cashel-Emly (in blue-purple, right) within the ecclesiastical province of Cashel |
The Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly ( Irish : Ard-Deoise Chaisil agus Imligh , Latin : Archidioecesis Cassiliensis (Casheliensis) et Emeliensis ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland in the southern part of the Irish province of Munster with its seat in Thurles ( County Tipperary ).
history
Today's archbishopric was created in 1718 through the union of the two Roman Catholic dioceses: Archdiocese of Cashel and Diocese of Emly . The territory covers most of County Tipperary and parts of County Limerick .
The Diocese of Emly was named after the village of Emly in the south of County Tipperary . The Cashel diocese was founded in 1111 by the Rathbreasail Synod . The Synod of Kells in 1152 elevated the diocese to a metropolitan bishopric when the papal legate , Cardinal Giovanni Paparoni († around 1153/54), gave the pallium to Bishop Donat O'Lonergan of Cashel .
→ see Church reform in Ireland in the Middle Ages
cathedral
Despite the name, the bishopric of the archdiocese ( cathedra ) is neither in Cashel nor in Emly, but in nearby Thurles . This results from the displacement of the Roman Catholic Archbishops from their ancestral cathedral (the Cathedral of Cashel ) by agents of the British Crown in favor of the new Church of Ireland . Miler Magrath , who held the Anglican Archbishop title of Cashel from 1571 to 1622, wrote a special chapter in this story . Since the time of the English Reformation , the archbishops appointed by Rome were forced to hide from royal troops in various properties in County Tipperary.
This situation continued until the end of the 18th century, when some of the harshest provisions of the relevant criminal law (Penal Laws) were weakened. Dr. James Butler II (1774–1791), when he was appointed archbishop of Rome, moved his residence and cathedra from Cashel to Thurles, from where his successors still run the archbishopric to this day. The Assumption Cathedral was built from 1865 to 1879 under the direction of Dublin architect James Joseph McCarthy .
Bishops
Dean's offices and parishes
Currently, the Archdiocese of eight is deaneries ( deaneries ) split, which include a number of parishes (or municipal mergers) belong.
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly on gcatholic.org (English)
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ Map of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly ( Memento of April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), official website of the Archdiocese, accessed on August 13, 2009.