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Diocese of Clonfert

Clonferten(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Clonfert, Ireland

The Diocese of Clonfert is a Latin Rite diocese in the west of Ireland, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tuam, with its seat at St Brendan's Cathedral in Loughrea. Since February 2022 it has been held in persona episcopi by Bishop Michael Duignan, who simultaneously leads Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1111
Latin
Clonferten(sis)
Patron
Saint Brendan the Navigator
Annuario code
001001180

The see in figures

Catholics
36,000
Population
41,300
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
87.2%
Priests
47
Catholics per priest
766
Extent
2,486 km²
Catholics per km²
14

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Michael Duignan

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

St Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea stands in Clonfert, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Tuam

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tuam.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The Diocese of Clonfert (Irish: Deoise Chluain Fearta), in the west of Ireland, is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church within the Metropolitan Province of Tuam. Michael Duignan, named by the Holy See on 16 July 2019, was ordained bishop on 13 October 2019. By both population and territory it is the smallest diocese in Ireland, with a shrinking body of clergy; acknowledging this, in Feb 2022 the Vatican joined the see in persona episcopi so that Michael Duignan serves at the same time as Bishop of Clonfert and of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.