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The Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry (also known as the United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry) is a former diocese in the Church of Ireland located in Connacht; the western province of Ireland. It was in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. Its geographical remit included County Mayo and part of counties Galway and Sligo. In 2022, the diocese was amalgamated into the Diocese of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe.

History edit

On 13 April 1834, the diocese of Killala and Achonry was united to the Archdiocese of Tuam. On the death of Archbishop Trench of Tuam in 1839, the Province of Tuam was united to the Province of Armagh and the see ceased to be an archbishopric and became a bishopric with Thomas Plunket becoming the first bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.^[1]

Diocese Highlighted

The bishop had two episcopal seats (Cathedra):

Prior to its amalgamation, the diocese was divided into unions (or groups) of parishes.^[4]

Achonry Union:

Aughaval Group:

Ballisodare Union:

Galway & Kilcummin:

Killala Union:

Kilmoremoy Union:

Omey Union:

Skreen Union:

Tuam Union:

Hon. Thomas Plunket (1839–1866)
Hon. Charles Brodrick Bernard (1867–1890)
James O'Sullivan (1890–1913)
Hon. Benjamin John Plunket (1913–1919)
Arthur Edwin Ross (1920–1923)
John Orr (1923–1927)
John Mason Harden (1928–1931)

William Hardy Holmes (1932–1938)
John Winthrop Crozier (1939–1957)
Arthur Hamilton Butler (1958–1969)
John Coote Duggan (1970–1985)
John Robert Winder Neill (1986–1997)
Richard Crosbie Aitken Henderson (1998–2011)
Patrick William Rooke (2011–2021) ^[5]

Arms of the Bishops of Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry

^ Fryde, 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.
^ "The Cathedral Churches of Tuam, Killala and Achonry". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^ "Ecumenical Carol Service in St Crumnathy's Cathedral, Achonry". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
^ "The United Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry". Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2007.
^ "Bishops Appoint the Very Revd Patrick Rooke as New Bishop of Tuam, Killala & Achonry :: Saint Patrick's Cathedral Armagh | Church of Ireland". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.