The Archdeacon of Dean was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Ross until 1835; and then within the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross until 1972 when it merged with the Archdeaconry of Cork. As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 within the Ross Diocese."Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross" Maziere Brady, W: London, Longmans, 1864
Details are sketchy until we get to Meredith Hanmer, the first incumbent of whom we have a full biography,"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp360-363 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 to the last discrete holder Dominick Patrick Sarsfield Wilson.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p 1079 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 In between William Fitzgerald, Percy Jocelyn and William Bissett went on to be bishops.
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