The Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin was established in the year A.D. 519 as the Diocese of Kildare and renamed as the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin in A.D. 1678.[1] In the Church of Ireland, Kildare is part of the the Diocese of Meath and Kildare, while Leighlin is grouped with Cashel, Waterford, Lismore, Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory. Events The Eastern and Western churches are temporarily reconciled with the end of the Acacian schism. ... Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann) is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ...
These two dioceses continued to be separate from their foundation until 1678, when, owing to the extreme tenuity of the episcopal revenues — about fifteen pounds sterling a year each — the Diocese of Leighlin was given in commendam by the Holy See to the Bishop of Kildare, Dr. Mark Forstall.
The Diocese of Kildare includes the northern half of that county, the eastern portion of King's County, as far as Tullamore, and the two northern baronies of Queen's County, and it embraces the ancient territories of Offaly, Carbury, and Hy Faelain.
The united diocese is one of the largest dioceses in Ireland, comprising 1,029,829 acres; and the Catholic population according to the census of 1901, was 130,377, out of a total of 149,168.
The only change in this system was the creation of the Diocese of Galway in 1831 following the abolition of the Wardenship of Galway, and the merging of some dioceses (these are the ones with more than one town in the name e.g.
The ancient Diocese of Kilfenora, in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel, has been administered by the Bishop of Galway, in the province of Tuam, since the late 19th century.
The Diocese of Ross was merged with the Diocese of Cork in the 1950s.
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