The Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral is the senior cleric of the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, elected by the chapter of the cathedral. The office was created in 1219 or 1220, by one
Bust of Jonathan Swift, the cathedral's best-known dean.
Cathedral memorial to the 16th-century dean Thomas Jones.
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The Church of Ireland is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autocephalous member church of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second-largest Christian church
Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
…The Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral is the senior cleric of the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, elected by the chapter of the cathedral. The office was created in 1219 or 1220, by one of several charters granted to…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, seat of the Primate of All Ireland
Henry II with Thomas Becket; the 1155 intervention was the start of efforts to Anglicise the Irish church
James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh
The Seven Bishops acquitted, June 1688; a key factor in the removal of James, five later became Non-Jurors