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1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 14", "text": "14 December – Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in Kilkenny by a disaffected member of his flock.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428620#Events", "title": "1585 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428620, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1589, "year_label": "1589 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 11", "text": "11 January – Richard Meredith nominated Church of Ireland Bishop of Leighlin (consecrated in April).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428691#Events", "title": "1589 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428691, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – A proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave Ireland by December 10 and directs the laity to attend 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"Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Bishopric of Limerick in the Church of Ireland is combined with Ardfert and Aghadoe to form the united bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, Edward Synge being the first bishop.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318944747#Events", "title": "1661 in Ireland", "revid": 1318944747, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1679, "year_label": "1679 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Lismore Cathedral (Church of Ireland) abandoned until 1749.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291847598#Events", "title": "1679 in Ireland", "revid": 1291847598, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1682, "year_label": "1682 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – William Sheridan consecrated Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in the Church of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387171#Events", "title": "1682 in 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July 20, to pay two £50 surety bonds for good behavior, and to stay in the county where they registered, with a financial inducement to convert to the Church of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386654#Events", "title": "1704 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386654, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1708, "year_label": "1708 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – the scholar Dr. Thomas Milles is appointed Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, in which office he will serve until his death in 1740 (consecrated April 18 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330916799#Events", "title": "1708 in Ireland", "revid": 1330916799, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "First service held in the rebuilt St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland), designed by Colonel Thomas Burgh, M.P., Surveyor General of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386595#Events", "title": "1719 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386595, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1734, "year_label": "1734 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 29", "text": "29 April – Act prohibits converts from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Ireland from educating their children in the old religion or from becoming Justices of Peace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386283#Events", "title": "1734 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386283, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 19", "text": "June 19 – Charles Cobbe, at this time Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, purchases the Newbridge Estate in County Kildare.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386319#Events", "title": "1736 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386319, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1744, "year_label": "1744 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 20", "text": "20 April – Arthur Price is translated from Meath to become Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel (letters patent 7 May).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1277895272#Events", "title": "1744 in Ireland", "revid": 1277895272, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Church of Ireland Bishoprics of Killaloe and Kilfenora are united under the Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386054#Events", "title": "1752 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386054, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1768, "year_label": "1768 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 18", "text": "18 February – The Hon. Frederick Augustus Hervey, later 4th Earl of Bristol, is appointed Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry (being translated from Cloyne), an office he will hold until his death in 1803.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385827#Events", "title": "1768 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385827, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1779, "year_label": "1779 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "New Church of Ireland Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372669977#Events", "title": "1779 in Ireland", "revid": 1372669977, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "New Church of Ireland St. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completed", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385501#Events", "title": "1784 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385501, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June", "text": "June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1258700763#Events", "title": "1816 in Ireland", "revid": 1258700763, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Irish Society for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish through the Medium of Their Own Language is founded in Dublin by members of the Church of Ireland, the main movers being Henry Joseph Monck Mason and Bishop Robert Daly.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1268342909#Events", "title": "1818 in Ireland", "revid": 1268342909, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1869, "year_label": "1869 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – The Irish Church Act 1869 is given royal assent by Queen Victoria, disestablishing the Church of Ireland effective January 1, 1871.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360511845#July", "title": "1869", "revid": 1360511845, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1869, "year_label": "1869 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – royal assent is given to the Irish Church Act 1869, disestablishing the Church of Ireland with effect from 1871 and abolishing payment of tithe, the legislation having passed through the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and House of Lords.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355441776#Events", "title": "1869 in Ireland", "revid": 1355441776, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "First service is held in the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363468887#Events", "title": "1870 in Ireland", "revid": 1363468887, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 1", "text": "1 January – Church of Ireland disestablished. 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