Derry
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Description of arms. Party per pale: dexter gules, two swords in saltire proper, the hilts in base or, and on a chief azure a harp or stringed argent (for the See of Derry); sinister ermine, a chief per pale azure and or, the first charged with a sun in splendour of the last, the second with a cross pattée gules (for the See of Raphoe).
Derry and Raphoe
Caencomhrac 927
–937 Finachta MacKellach
–949 Mael Finnen
BISHOPS OF MAGHERA
(Where the See was in the twelfth
and the thirteenth centuries)
1107 Mael Coluim O Brolchain
— Mael Brigte O Brolchain
1152 O Gormgaile Muiredach O Cobthaig [Mauricius]
1173 Amhlaim O Muirethaig
1185 Fogartach O Cerballain [Florentius]
c.1230 Gilla in Coimhded O Cerballain [Germanus]
c.1280 Fogartach O Cerballain II [Florentius]
BISHOPS OF DERRY
(Where the See was resettled)
1295 Enri Mac Airechtaig [O'Reghly] [of Ardagh]
1297 Gofraid MacLochlainn [Godfrey]
1316 Aed O Neill [Odo]
1319 Michael Mac Lochlainn [Maurice]
1349 Simon
1391 Johannes
1391 John Dongan
1394 Seoan O Mochain
1398 Aodh [Hugo]
1401 Seoan O Flannabhra
1415 Domhnall Mac Cathmhail
1419 Domhnall O Mearaich
1429 Eoghan O Domhnaill [Eugenius]
1433 John Oguguin
[1456 John Bole, appointment not completed, translated to Armagh]
1458 Bartholomew O Flannagain
c.1464 Johannes
1467 Nicholas Weston
1485 Domhnall O Fallamhain
1501 Seamus mac Pilip Mac Mathghamna [MacMahon]
1520 Ruaidhri O Domhnaill
1520 Rory O'Donnell
1554 Eugene O'Doherty
1568 F. [doubtful authority]
1569 Redmond O'Gallagher
[1603 Denis Campbell, not consecrated]
1605 George Montgomery
1610 Brutus Babington
[1611 Christopher Hampton, consecrated]
1613 John Tanner
1617 George Downham
1634 John Bramhall
1661 George Wild
1666 Robert Mossom
1680 Michael Ward
1681 Ezekiel Hopkins
1691 William King
1703 Charles Hickman
1714 John Hartstonge
1717 St George Ashe
1718 William Nicolson
1727 Henry Downes
1735 Thomas Rundle
1743 Carew Reynell
1745 George Stone
1747 William Barnard
1768 Frederick Augustus Hervey [afterwards Earl of Bristol]
1803 William Knox
1831 Richard Ponsonby
Raphoe united to Derry from 1834
1853 William Higgin
1867 William Alexander
1896 George Alexander Chadwick (resigned)
1916 Joseph Irvine Peacocke
1945 Robert M’Neil Boyd
1958 Charles John Tyndall
1970 Cuthbert Irvine Peacocke
1975 Robert Henry Alexander Eames
1980 James Mehaffey
2002 Kenneth Raymond Good
2019 Andrew James Forster