Dean_of_Ferns
The Dean of Ferns is based at The Cathedral Church of St Edan, Ferns in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland.
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The incumbent is Paul Mooney.
- 1272-1282 Richard of Northampton (appointed Bishop of Ferns 1282)[1]
- 1558–1559 John Garvie (afterwards Archdeacon of Meath and Bishop of Kilmore 1585)[2]
- 1559 John Devereux (appointed Bishop of Ferns, 1566 but with right to retain deanery in commendam for five years)[2]
- 1568/9 Walter Turner[2]
- 1590 William Campyon or Champion [2]
- 1601–1625 Thomas Ram (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1605 but retaining deanery in commendam)[2]
- 1610 (John Thoms)?[2]
- 1625/6 Thomas Ram jnr[2]
- 1628/9 Robert Wilson[2]
- 1642/3 Anthony Proctor[2]
- 1661 John Watson[2]
- 1666–1670 John Creighton[2]
- 1670–1672 Benjamin Phipps (afterwards Dean of Down, 1682)[2]
- 1682–1694 Tobias Pullen (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, 1694)[2]
- 1694 Thomas Cox[2]
- 1719–1720 William Crosse (afterwards Dean of Lismore 1720)[2]
- 1720–1724 Arthur Price (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1724) [2]
- 1724–1727/8 Pascal (or Paul) Ducasse (afterwards Dean of Clogher, 1717)[2]
- 1727/8– Thomas Sawbridge[2]
- 1733–1734 George Stone (afterwards Dean of Derry 1734 and later Bishop of Ferns, 1740)[2]
- 1734-1740 Joseph Story (afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, 1740)[2]
- 1740–1747 Robert Watts (afterwards Dean of Kilkenny, 1747)[2]
- 1747–1769 John Alcock[2]
- 1769–1787 Richard Marlay (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1787)[2]
- 1787–1794 Hon Thomas Stopford (afterwards Bishop of Cork and Ross, 1794)[2]
- 1794–1842 Peter Browne[2]
- 1842–1862 Henry Newland[2]
- 1862–1862 Hamilton Verschoyle (afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1862)
- 1863–1879 William Atkins
- 1879–1892 John R Dowse
- 1892–1896 Charles Hind
- 1896–1897 Humphrey Eakins Ellison
- 1897–1898 Jonathan Sisson Cooper
- 1899–1908 John Alexander
- 1908–1926 Thomas Brownell Gibson
- 1926–1932 Henry Cameron Lyster
- 1932-1936 William Gibson
- 1936-1949 Alfred Forbes
- 1949-1979 Thomas Henry Crampton McFall
- 1979-1994 David Kaye Lee Earl
- 1995-2011 Leslie David Arthur Forrest
- 2011–present Paul Gerard Mooney
- Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926 p.53
- Cotton, Henry (1848). Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates and ..., Volume 2 By Henry Cotton. p. 347. Retrieved 11 February 2012.