Bishops of Clogher

Medallion of the Cathedra or Chair of the Bishop of Clogher in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan. It reads: HAEC EST SEDES EPISCOPALIS CLOGHERENSIS – This is [the] seat of the Bishop of Clogher.

At the Synods of Rathbreasail (1111) and Kells/Mellifont (1152) the diocesan boundaries were formalised. Over the succeeding decades the boundaries of the Diocese of Clogher were settled, eventually embracing the territorial lordships of the MacMahon and Maguire clans. 

Up to October 1542, the pre-Reformation Episcopal succession is shared with the Church of Ireland (Anglican) tradition.

The following is the Episcopal succession for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher

Cináeth Ua Baígill         – 1135
Gilla Críst Ua Morgair 1135 – 1138
Áed Ua Cáellaide 1138 – 1178
Mael Ísu Ua Cerbaill 1178 – 1186
Gilla Críst Ua Mucaráin 1187 – 1193
Máel Ísu Ua Máel Chiaráin 1194 – 1197
Gilla Tigernaig Mac Gilla Rónáin 1197 – 1218
Donatus Ó Fidabra 1218 – 1227
Nehemias Ó Brácáin 1227 – 1240
David Ó Brácáin 1245 – 1267
Michael Mac an tSáir 1268 – 1287
Matthaeus Mac Cathasaig I 1287 – 1310
Henricus 1310 – c.1316
Gelasius alias Cornelius Ó Bánáin 1316 – 1319
Nicolaus Mac Cathasaigh 1320 – 1356
Brian Mac Cathmhaoil 1356 – 1358
Matthaeus Mac Cathasaigh II c.1361 –
Aodh Ó hEóthaigh (alias Ó Neill)          – 1369
Johannes Ó Corcráin 1373 – c.1389
Art Mac Cathmhaoil 1390 – 1432
Piaras Mag Uidhir 1433 – 1447
Rossa mac Tomáis Óig Mág Uidhir 1450 – 1483
John Edmund de Courcy 1484 – 1494
Andreas 1500 –
Nehemias Ó Cluainín 1502 – 1503
Giolla Pádraig Ó Condálaigh 1504 – 1504
Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil 1505 – 1515
Pádraig Ó Cuilín 1517 – 1534
Hugh O’Carolan 1537 – 1569
Raymond MacMahon 1546 – 1560
Cornelius MacArdel 1560 – c.1592
Eugene Matthews 1609 – 1611
Heber MacMahon 1643 – 1650
Patrick Duffy 1671 – 1675
Patrick Tyrrell 1676 – 1689
Hugh MacMahon 1707 – 1715
Bernard MacMahon 1718 – 1737
Ross MacMahon 1738 – 1747
Daniel O’Reilly 1747 – 1778
Hugh O’Reilly 1778 – 1801
James Murphy 1801 – 1824
Edward Kernan 1824 – 1844
Charles MacNally 1844 – 1864
James Donnelly 1865 – 1893
Richard Owens 1894 – 1909
Patrick McKenna 1909 – 1942
Eugene O’Callaghan 1943 – 1969
Patrick Mulligan 1970 – 1979
Joseph Duffy 1979 – 2010
Liam S. MacDaid 2010-   2016
Lawrence Duffy 2019-