The Dean of Killala is based at the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Killala in the Diocese of Killala within the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry of the Church of Ireland. The Cathedral Church of St Crumnathy, Achonry, was closed in 1997. The Chapters of Killala & Achonry were amalgamated in 2013; The Cathedral of St Patrick, Killala, becoming also the diocesan Cathedral of Achonry. The Dean of Killala is the Very Revd Diane Matchett, also Dean of Tuam.
List of deans of Killala 1613: William Flanagan 1628/9–1635: William Buchanan (afterwards Dean of Achonry, 1635) 1635: Robert Forgie 1664: Henry Dodwell 1674: Alexander Murray 1701–1718: Francis Knapp 1718–1724: Jonathan Smedley (afterwards Dean of Clogher, 1724) 1724–?1741: Peter Maturin (died 1741) 1741–1770: Theophilus Brocas 1770–1795: John Brocas 1795: Thomas Vesey Dawson 1796–1799: Thomas Thompson 1800–1805: Walter Blake Kirwan 1806–1817: Edmund Burton 1817–1844: Hon George Saunders Gore 1844–1871: James Collins 1871–1885: William Jackson 1885–1903: William Skipton 1903–?1904: William Oliver Jackson (died 1904) 1904–?1911: C. Ormsby Wiley 1911–?1915: George Henry Croly 1915–1927: Theophilus Patrick Landey 1928–>: William Colvin >1963–? Herbert Friedrich Friess (died 1997) ?–?1975 John Ernest Leeman (died 1975) 1976–1979: John Henry Hodgins 1979–1989: Malcolm Frederick Graham 1989–2003: Edward George Ardis 2003–2007: Sue Patterson 2007–2012: vacant 2012–2013: Wendy Mary Callan 2013–2022: Alistair Grimason 2024-present: Diane Matchett
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