Dean of Dromore

The Dean of Dromore has responsibility for Dromore Cathedral in the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland.

Deans of Dromore

1693/4 Isaac Plume 1609 William Todd 1621 Thomas Wilson 1622 John Wall 1623 Robert Dawson 1628/9 William Moore 1632/3–1638 George Synge (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, 1638) 1638–1641 Robert Forward 1642–1673 Nicholas GreavesGreaves became Rector of Tullylish in 1642 and was presented as Dean in 1643, but owing to the troubled times he was not installed until 1661, after the Restoration. 1673–1681 William Smyth (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1681) 1681–1721 John Leslie 1721/2 Henry Leslie 1721/2 George Berkeley (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1724) 1724–1729 John Hamilton (son-in-law of Francis Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor) 1729–1759 Samuel Hutchinson (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1759) 1759–1772 Walter Cope (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1772) 1772–1772 Hon. Joseph Deane Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1772) 1772–1808 Raphael Walsh 1809–1837 James Mahon 1841–1842 William Henry Wynne 1842–1850 Holt Waring 1851–1875 Daniel Bagot 1879–1885 Jeffry Lefroy 1885–1887 Henry Stewart 1887–1894 Theophilus Campbell 1894-1905 Abraham Dawson 1905–1925 Robert Stuart O'Loughlin 1925–1931 Thomas William Clarendon 1931–1932 Henry Biddall Swanzy 1945–1951 Edward Albert Myles 1951–1957 Wilfred R.M. Orr 1957–1961 William A. Jones 1961–1964 John William Appleby 1964–1965 Arthur Theodore Irving Forde 1965–1971 Henry Hughes 1971–1975 Hugh Hastings Richard Mayes 1975–1984 R.J. Norman Lockhart 1990-1992 Mervyn Robert Wilson 1993–1995 Roland Hutchinson 1995–2002 David Robert Chillingworth (afterwards Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 2005) 2002–2013 Stephen H. Lowry 2014–2015 Bryan T. Kerr (Resigned 30 November 2015) 2016–present Geoff Wilson

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