Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick
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The Diocese of Limerick (Irish: Deoise Luimnigh) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly.
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Diocese of Limerick Dioecesis Limericiensis Deoise Luimnigh | |
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Location | |
Country | Ireland |
Territory | Most of County Limerick and parts of counties Clare and Kerry |
Ecclesiastical province | Cashel and Emly |
Metropolitan | Cashel and Emly |
Statistics | |
Area | 811 sq mi (2,100 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 192,300 184,300 (95.8%) |
Parishes | 60 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Latin |
Cathedral | St John's, Limerick |
Patron saint | Ss Munchin and Ita |
Secular priests | 65 (as of 2018) |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Brendan Leahy, Bishop of Limerick |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Kieran O'Reilly, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly |
Bishops emeritus | Donal Murray |
Map | |
Website | |
limerickdiocese.org |
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The cathedral church of the diocese is St John's Cathedral in Limerick.
The incumbent bishop of the diocese is Brendan Leahy.