The Archdeacon of Limerick was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Limerick (and later in the Church of Ireland) from the thirteenth century"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp405 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 to the early twentieth.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p81 London, Horace Cox, 1908 An early holder was Gerald Le Marescal who went on to be Bishop of the Diocese. The position is no longer used in the post Conciliar Church but it continues to exist in the Anglican diocese.
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