Archdeacon of Cloyne

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The Archdeacon of Cloyne was a senior ecclesiastical officerFryde, 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}}. within the Diocese of Cloyne until 1835;"A New History of Ireland" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}} and then within the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross until 1986 when it merged with the Archdeaconry of Cork. As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 {{ISBN|978-1-85311-420-5}} within the Cloyne Diocese."Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Maziere Brady, W: London, Longmans, 1864

The archdeaconry can trace its history from Colman O'Scannlain, the first known incumbent, who was mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters as having been aircinneach (an Irish word for archdeacon) of Cloyne at some time before his death in 1179."[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaehi01cottuoft Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1]" Cotton, H. pp317 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878{{Cite book |last=O'Clery |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gM8VrOjTtIIC |title=The Annals of Ireland |year=1846 |page=13 |access-date=2024-03-01}} to the last discrete holder Arthur Charles Gill.[http://carrigalineunion.org/?p=2052 Carrigaline Union] In between Thomas Wetherhead, Michael Boyle and William Steere went on to be bishops.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}