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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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,...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

was Dean of Ferns from 1559 to 1569 (the last three years in commendam); and Bishop of Ferns from 1566 until his death in 1578. Handbook of British Chronology...

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...

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...

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;,...

Preston was nominated as Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 13 October 1784, and consecrated on 11 November that year. Translated to Ferns and Leighlin on 9 November...

1272-1282 Richard of Northampton (appointed Bishop of Ferns 1282) 1558–1559 John Garvie (afterwards Archdeacon of Meath and Bishop of Kilmore 1585) 1559...

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...

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...

Cashel and Ossory The Bishop of Ferns, a Roman Catholic bishop in Ireland The Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, a former Episcopalisan bishop in Ireland This disambiguation...

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...

of the castle today.[citation needed] Alexander Devereux, the 16th-century bishop of Ferns and Abbot of Dunbrody, is buried in St. Mogue's Church of Ireland...