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Church of Ireland

Anglican church in Ireland

41 dated entries naming Church of Ireland, drawn from 39 separate years between 1521 CE and 1923 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1521George Cromer (died 1543) was appointed (Church of Ireland) Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland under Henry VIII.source
  • 1538Church of Ireland Kilkenny College is founded as Kilkenny Grammar School by Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Margaret, to replace the School of the Vicars Choral.source
  • 1546May 30 – Cornelius O'Dea is nominated by Henry VIII as first Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (consecrated 12 July).source
  • 1559Approximate date – the Church of Ireland Bishopric of Mayo is united with the Archdiocese of Tuam.source
  • 1568June 13 – Thomas Lancaster is consecrated as the Archbishop of Armagh, spiritual leader of the Church of Ireland, succeeding Archbishop Adam Loftus.source
  • 1571February 3 – Miler Magrath is appointed Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel (being translated from Clogher) while simultaneously retaining the title of Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor. He will retain his new post until his death in 1622.source
  • 158014 March – Miler Magrath is deposed as Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor by Pope Gregory XIII for heresy, having for a decade simultaneously held bishoprics in the Protestant Church of Ireland.source
  • 1582approx. date – Ambrose Ussher, Church of Ireland clergyman and Biblical scholar (d. 1629)source
  • 158514 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.source
  • 158911 January – Richard Meredith nominated Church of Ireland Bishop of Leighlin (consecrated in April).source

17th century

  • 1605July 4 – A proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave Ireland by December 10 and directs the laity to attend Church of Ireland services.source
  • 16054 July – a proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave the country by 10 December and directs the laity to attend Church of Ireland services.source
  • 161119 August – the Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin, John Lynch, resigns, declaring himself a Roman Catholic, and is succeeded by Edward King (consecrated December).source
  • 161525 April – convocation of the Church of Ireland ends, having adopted 104 Articles of Religion largely drafted by James Ussher.source
  • 1617Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland bishop (d. 1687)source
  • 1623June 29 – Malcolm Hamilton is consecrated Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel.source
  • 1636August 12 – following a public disputation in Belfast, Henry Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, sentences Edward Brice, Henry Calvert, James Hamilton, John Ridge and one other non-subscribing Presbyterian minister to silence.source
  • 1641William Bedell, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, with other refugees is imprisoned and tortured by rebels at Cloughoughter Castle.source
  • 1661The 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.source
  • 1679Lismore Cathedral (Church of Ireland) abandoned until 1749.source
  • 1682February 19 – William Sheridan consecrated Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in the Church of Ireland.source
  • 1694c. 25 October – Jonathan Swift is appointed to the Church of Ireland prebend of Kilroot, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim (until 1696).source

18th century

  • 1703June 11 – Charles Hickman is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry.source
  • 1704Registration Act requires all existing Catholic priests to register in their local magistrates' court by 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.source
  • 1708March 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).source
  • 1719First service held in the rebuilt St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland), designed by Colonel Thomas Burgh, M.P., Surveyor General of Ireland.source
  • 173429 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.source
  • 1736June 19 – Charles Cobbe, at this time Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, purchases the Newbridge Estate in County Kildare.source
  • 174420 April – Arthur Price is translated from Meath to become Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel (letters patent 7 May).source
  • 1752The Church of Ireland Bishoprics of Killaloe and Kilfenora are united under the Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora.source
  • 176818 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.source
  • 1779New Church of Ireland Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, completed.source
  • 1784New Church of Ireland St. John's Cathedral, Cashel, completedsource

19th century

  • 1816June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.source
  • 1818The 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.source
  • 1869July 26 – The Irish Church Act 1869 is given royal assent by Queen Victoria, disestablishing the Church of Ireland effective January 1, 1871.source
  • 1869July 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.source
  • 1870First service is held in the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland).source
  • 18711 January – Church of Ireland disestablished. St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, becomes the National Cathedral.source
  • 18789 October – St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam (Church of Ireland) dedicated.source

20th century

  • 1923The Church of Ireland parish church of St. Anne in Enniskillen is raised to the dignity of the cathedral church of St. Macartin.source

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