List of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin (original) (raw)

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The Archdiocese of Dublin is a Catholic archdiocese located in eastern Ireland, with a geographical remit comprising the city and traditional county of Dublin, most of County Wicklow and parts of counties Carlow, Kildare, Laois and Wexford.

In 1975, the archdiocese comprised 163 parishes, but as of 2009, the number of parishes had risen to 200. One of these parishes is non-territorial, providing services to the Traveller community. The other 199 parishes had been grouped into sixteen deaneries since 2004, with pastoral responsibility for each of these deaneries resting with a number of auxiliary bishops or episcopal vicars. Each individual deanery is led by a vicar forane, whose responsibility it is to ease the administrative burden on the Archbishop.[1]

Following the establishment of the Building Hope task force by Archbishop Dermot Farrell in April 2021, the parishes were restructured into 53 parish partnerships within fifteen deaneries, which were shared with parishes in the first week of Advent 2022.[2][3]

Under the pastoral responsibility of Canon Liam Rigney

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The Blessington deanery is located in the civil county of South Dublin and the traditional counties of Carlow, Kildare, Laois and Wicklow.

The vicar forane is Fr. John Gilligan.

The South Dublin deanery is located entirely within the eponymous civil county.

The vicar forane is Fr. Philip Bradley.

The Tallaght deanery is located entirely within the civil county of South Dublin.

The vicar forane is Fr. William O’Shaughnessy.

Under the pastoral responsibility of Fr. Richard Sheehy

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The Blanchardstown deanery is located entirely within the civil county of Fingal.

The vicar forane is Fr. Damian McNeice.

The Fingal North deanery is located entirely within the civil county of Fingal.

The vicar forane is Canon John McNamara.

The Maynooth deanery is located in the civil county of South Dublin and the traditional county of Kildare.

The vicar forane is Fr. Kieran Coghlan.

Under the pastoral responsibility of Fr. Paul Thornton

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The Fingal South East deanery is located within the city of Dublin and the civil county of Fingal.

The vicar forane is Fr. Michael O'Grady.

The Fingal South West deanery is located within the city of Dublin and the civil county of Fingal.

The vicar forane is Fr. Frank Reburn.

The Howth deanery is located within the city of Dublin and the civil county of Fingal.

The vicar forane is Fr. Martin Noone.

Under the pastoral responsibility of Fr. Donal Roche

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The Bray deanery is located within the civil county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and the traditional county of Wicklow.

The vicar forane is Fr. Aquinas Duffy.

The Donnybrook deanery is located within the city of Dublin and the civil county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.

The vicar forane is Fr. Fergus O’Connor.

The Wicklow deanery is located within the traditional counties of Wexford and Wicklow.

The vicar forane is Fr. Derek Doyle.

Under the pastoral responsibility of Fr. Enda Cunningham

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The Cullenswood deanery is located entirely within the city of Dublin.

The vicar forane is Fr. Paul Taylor.

The North City Centre deanery is located entirely within the city of Dublin.

The vicar forane is Fr. Kieran McDermott.

The South City Centre deanery is located entirely within the city of Dublin.

The vicar forane is Fr. Seán Ford.

There is also a diocese-wide parish of the Travelling People, which was established by Archbishop Dermot Ryan in 1980 in response to the unique pastoral needs of the Traveller community in the archdiocese. The parish is under the pastoral care of Fr. Paul O'Driscoll.[10][11]

Notes and references

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1. ^ The parish church in Blakestown, Mary of the Servants, closed in January 2018 due to the identification of structural issues with the church building.

2. ^ Includes Cherrywood

3. ^ "Deanery changes in Dublin Archdiocese to increase the role of lay people in Diocesan Planning". Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2022.

4. ^ "Building Hope in Parish Partnership – Advent 2022". Archdiocese of Dublin. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.

5. ^ McDonald, Sarah (11 December 2022). "Country's largest Catholic diocese to amalgamate 199 parishes into 53 in major overhaul". Irish Independent. Retrieved 30 December 2022.

6. ^ "New Future for Dublin Parishes". Archdiocese of Dublin. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2023. In January [2018], the Parish Church of Blakestown, St. Mary of the Servants, closed following the identification of serious issues with the Church building. The closely located parishes of Hartstown, Huntstown and Mountview are continuing to work more closely together in their parish grouping.

7. ^ Cronin, Elizabeth (2002). Fr Michael Dungan's Blanchardstown, 1836-1868. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press. p. 56. ISBN 1-85182-711-0. OCLC 51993926.

8. ^ Bray (Holy Redeemer)

9. ^ "Queen of Peace - History". queenofpeace.ie. Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 14 February 2008.

10. ^ "Celebrating sixty years of the Queen of Peace parish". Bray People. 18 January 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

11. ^ Bray (Our Lady Queen of Peace)

12. ^ Rousselle, Christine (27 August 2018). "Irish Traveller community keeps faith despite hardships". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

13. ^ Osborne, Jason (8 July 2021). "Traveller parish welcomes community's advances in politics". The Irish Catholic. Retrieved 7 January 2023.