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Description of arms. Azure, a bishop seated in full pontificals proper, in the act of benediction, and holding his pastoral staff in the left hand.
c.493 MacCarthinn or Ferdachrioch
Ailill 869
1135 Cinaeth O Baigill
1135 Gilla Crist O Morgair [Christianus] (moved his see to Louth)
BISHOPS OF LOUTH
1135 Gilla Crist O Morgair [Christianus]
1138 Aed O Ceallaide [Edanus]
1178 Mael Isu O Cerbaill [Malachias]
1187 Gilla Crist O Mucaran [Christinus]
1194 Mael Isu Ua Mael Chiarain
1197 Gilla Tigernaig Mac Gilla Ronain [Thomas]
BISHOPS OF CLOGHER
1218 Donatus O Fidabra
1228 Nehemias
1245 David O Bracain
1268 Michael Mac an tSair
1287 Matthew Mac Cathasaigh I
–1310 Henricus
1316 Gelasius O Banain
1320 Nicholas Mac Cathasaigh
1356 Brian Mac Cathmaoil [Bernard]
1362 Matthew Mac Cathasaigh II
— Aodh O hEothaigh [alias O Neill]
1373 John O Corcrain [Wurzburg]
1390 Art Mac Cathmhail
1433 Piaras Mag Uidhir [Petrus]
1450 Rossa mac Tomais Oig Mag Uidhir [Rogerius]
1475 Florence Woolley
[1484 Niall mac Seamuis Mac Mathghamna]
1484 John Edmund de Courci
1494 Seamus Mac Pilip Mac Mathghamna
1500 Andreas
1502 Nehemias O Cluainin
1504 Giolla Padraig O Conalaigh [Patrick]
1505 Eoghan Mac Cathmhail [Eugenius]
1517 Padraig O Cuilin
1535 Aodh O Cearbhalain [Odo]
1517 Patrick O'Cullen
1535 Hugh O'Carolan
1570 Miler Magrath
1605 George Montgomery
1621 James Spottiswood
1645 Henry Jones
1661 John Leslie
1671 Robert Leslie
1672 Roger Boyle
1691 Richard Tennison
1697 St George Ashe
1717 John Stearne
1745 Robert Clayton
1758 John Garnett
1782 John Hotham
1796 William Foster
1797 John Porter
1819 John George Beresford
1820 Percy Jocelyn
1822 Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Luftus
United to Armagh 1850–86
1886 Charles Maurice Stack
1903 Charles Frederick D’Arcy
1908 Maurice Day
1923 James MacManaway
1944 Richard Tyner
1958 Alan Alexander Buchanan
1970 Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson
1973 Robert William Heavener
1980 Gordon McMullan
1986 Brian Desmond Anthony Hannon
2002 Michael Geoffrey St Aubyn Jackson
2011 Francis John McDowell
2021 Ian William Ellis