Diocese of Kerry
Kerrien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kerry, Ireland
The Diocese of Kerry, originally the Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe and renamed in 1952, is a Latin Rite diocese covering County Kerry and part of County Cork, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. Its cathedral is St Mary's Cathedral in Killarney, and it has been led by Bishop Raymond Browne since 2013.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1117
- Latin
- Kerrien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Brendan the Navigator
- Annuario code
- 001001837
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 146,790
- Population
- 153,100
- Catholic share
- 95.9%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 2,718
- Extent
- 5,302 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Raymond Browne
- Born
- 23 January 1957
- Birthplace
- Athlone
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney stands in Kerry, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Cashel
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CloyneCloyne
- Diocese of Cork and RossCork and Ross
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].