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Description of arms. Azure, an archiepiscopal staff in pale argent ensigned with a cross pattée or, surmounted by a pall argent fimbriated and fringed or, charged with four crosses pattées-fitchées sable.
BISHOPS
444 Patrick
Benignus 467
Jarlath 481
Cormac 497
Dubthach 513
Ailill I 526
Ailill II 536
David O'Faranan 551
Carlaen 588
MacLaisre 623
–640 Thomian MacRonan
Segeni 688
Suibhne 730
–732 Congusa
Affinth 794
–811 Nundha
–818 Artri
835 Forannan
Mael Patraic I 862
Fethgna 875
Cathasach MacRobartach 883
Mochta 893
900 Maelaithghin
Cellach
Mael Ciarain 915
Joseph 936
Mael Patraic II 936
Cathasach MacDolgen 966
Maelmiure 994
Airindach 1000
Maeltuile 1032
1032 Hugh O'Ferris
Mael Patraic III 1096
1099 Caincomrac O'Boyle
ARCHBISHOPS
1105 Cellach mac Aeda meic Mael Isu [Celsus]
1132 Mael maedoc Ua Morgair [Malachais]
1137 Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata meic Ruaidri [Gelasius]
1174 Conchobar O Conchaille [Concors]
1175 Gille in Coimhedh O Caran [Gilbertus]
1180 Tomaltach O Conchobair [Thomas]
1184 Mael Isu Ua Cerbaill [Malachias]
1202 Echdonn mac Gilla Uidir [Eugenius]
1217 Lucas Neterville
1227 Donatus O Fidabra
1240 Albert Suebeer of Cologne
1247 Reginald
1258 Abraham O'Conallain
1261 Mael Patraic O Scannail
1270 Nicol Mac Mael Isu
1303 Michael MacLochlainn (not confirmed)
1304 Dionysius (not confirmed)
1306 John Taaffe
1307 Walter Jorz
1311 Roland Jorz
1324 Stephen Segrave
1334 David Mag Oireachtaigh
1347 Richard FitzRalph
1362 Milo Sweetman
1383 John Colton
1404 Nicholas Fleming
1418 John Swayne
1439 John Prene
1444 John Mey
1457 John Bole [Bull]
1471 John Foxhalls or Foxholes
1475 Edmund Connesburgh
1480 Ottaviano Spinelli [de Palatio]
1513 John Kite
1521 George Cromer
1543 George Dowdall
1552 Hugh Goodacre
1553 George Dowdall (again)
[1560 Donat MacTeague, not recognized by the Crown, 1562]
1563 Adam Loftus
1568 Thomas Lancaster
1584 John Long
1589 John Garvey
1595 Henry Ussher
1613 Christopher Hampton
1625 James Ussher
[Interregnum 1656–61]
1661 John Bramhall
1663 James Margetson
1679 Michael Boyle
1703 Narcissus Marsh
1714 Thomas Lindsay
1724 Hugh Boulter
1742 John Hoadly
1747 George Stone
1765 Richard Robinson [afterwards Baron Rokeby]
1795 William Newcome
1800 William Stuart
1822 John George Beresford
United to Clogher 1850–86
1862 Marcus Gervais Beresford
1886 Robert Bentknox
1893 Robert Samuel Gregg
1896 William Alexander
1911 John Baptist Crozier
1920 Charles Frederick D’Arcy
1938 John Godfrey FitzMaurice Day
1939 John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg
1959 James McCann
1969 George Otto Simms
1980 John Ward Armstrong
1986 Robert Henry Alexander Eames
2007 Alan Edwin Thomas Harper
2012 Richard Lionel Clarke
2020 Francis John McDowell