The Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Ireland. It is one of three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin and is subject t
Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow.
Bishop of Kildare
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The Bishop of Kildare was an episcopal title which took its name after the town of Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland. The title is no longer in use by any of the main Christian churches having been u
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin
…until 1678, when, owing to the extreme tenuity of the episcopal revenues, the bishopric of Leighlin was given in commendam by the Holy See to the Bishop of Kildare. The Cathedral Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is located in the town of Carlow. Today, with the help of enthusiastic lay people…
St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare