Christianity portal The Bishop of Ferns (Irish: Easpag Fhearna) is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Ferns in County Wexford, Ireland...

was the first Bishop of Ferns in County Wexford and the founder of thirty churches. His birth name was Áed, the name of the Irish god of the underworld...

Roman Catholic Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Ferns. He was born in Clontibret, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was ordained a priest of the little known...

2013. Following the resignation of Brendan Comiskey as Bishop of Ferns, Walsh was appointed apostolic administrator of Ferns by Pope John Paul II on 6 April...

Look up ferns in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ferns are plants of the class Polypodiopsida. Ferns may also refer to: Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland...

The Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin was the Ordinary of Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns and Leighlin in the Province of Dublin. The diocese comprised...

"Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse", an episode of the TV series Father Ted Denis Brennan (born 1945), Irish Roman Catholic Bishop of Ferns from 2006...

Muirithe, "Ferns was without a regular Bishop between 1651 and 1684. Bishop Nicholas French had left Ireland to seek the help of the Duke of Lorraine,...

St Mogue of Clonmore (St. Aidan), who was a Bishop of Ferns. The town became the capital of the Kingdom of Leinster, and also the Capital of Ireland when...

(1842–1917) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Ferns from 1884 to 1917. Born in Mayglass, County Wexford, Ireland on 28...

Catholic bishop. He was appointed Bishop of Ferns on 11 June 2021 and consecrated on 5 September 2021. Nash was born in Glandree, in the parish of Tulla...

The Ferns Report (2005) was an official Irish government inquiry into the allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns in...

785 students enrolled. Founded in 1811 by Most Rev. Patrick Ryan, Bishop of Ferns, the college has progressed from a Roman Catholic Seminary in Michael...

(Irish: Ailbe Ua Maíl Mhuaidh) (died 1223) was the Irish bishop of Ferns. O'Molloy was native of what is now north County Tipperary. He became a Cistercian...

served as Bishop of Ferns between 2006 and 2021. Brennan was born in Springmount, Rathnure, County Wexford on 20 June 1945, the only child of Denis and...

was rector of Tamlaght, archdeacon of Ross (1788–1790), treasurer of Armagh (1790–1809), a prebend of Lismore (1796–1809), and bishop of Ferns and Leighlin...

Grattan Flood, W.H. History of the Diocese of Ferns. Waterford: Downey & Co., 1916. Ferns.ie – Official site Diocese of Ferns (GCatholic.org) Catholic-Hierarchy...

of priest Sean Fortune and the response of the diocese of Ferns to his activities over the years. As a result, bishop Brendan Comiskey, the bishop of...

Donal Collins was a priest of the Diocese of Ferns. He was appointed principal of St Peter's College, Wexford by Bishop Brendan Comiskey in 1988 despite...

Bishop of Ferns (1624–1636). John Roche was born in 1584. On 29 April 1624, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Ferns....

Irish Roman Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Clonfert since 2019 and additionally as Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh since 2022. Duignan was...

media related to Ferns Cathedral. List of cathedrals in Ireland Bishop of Ferns Dean of Ferns "St. Edan's Cathedral, Ferns". Diocese of Cashel and Ossory...

ecclesiastical seals, such as Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, then Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1820-1822), and finally Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin until...

former Roman Catholic Bishop of Ferns, County Wexford, was born in Tassan, Clontibret in 1935. He resigned as Bishop of Ferns in 2002 following allegations...

Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel from 1744 until his death. Previously he had been Church of Ireland Bishop of Clonfert (1724–1730), Ferns and Leighlin...

Abbot of Dunbrody was Alexander Devereux, who became Bishop of Ferns in 1539. In 1169 a contingent of Anglo-Norman knights led by the King of Leinster...

served as the bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns from 1964 to 1983. He was born in Knocknagree, County Cork (within the jurisdiction of Kerry diocese)...

21 November 1573; and translated to Ferns on 24 May 1582. He died at Fethard in 1599.[citation needed] Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;,...

for that of Derry. In 1740 he became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, in 1743 Bishop of Kildare, in 1745 Bishop of Derry, and in 1747 Archbishop of Armagh...

was successively Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, Archbishop of Cashel, Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh. Marsh was born at...