Archdeacon of Ardagh

The Archdeacon of Ardagh was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Ardagh.^[1] As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy^[2] within the Diocese.^[3]

Province of Armagh
Church	Church of Ireland

The archdeaconry can trace its history back to Joseph Magodaig who then became the Bishop of Ardagh.^[4] The Archdeaconry is now combined with that of Elphin, one of two within the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh^[5]

List of archdeacons

Previous holders include:

• 1683–1696 Andrew Charlton
• 1705–1747 Thomas Taylor
• 1751–1762 Robert Hort
• 1762–1778 John Oliver
• 1778–1790 Chambre Corker
• 1805–1820 Robert Beatty
• 1820–1839 Charles Le Poer Trench, a younger son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty,^[6]
• 1839– Marcus Gervais Beresford, DD, PCi,^[7]
• Thomas Carson, LL.D.,^[8] later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1870 –1874^[9]
• John Richard Darley DD, later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1874 –1884,^[10]
• 1874–1891 Fitzmaurice Hunt
• 1891–1896 Frederic Potterton
• 1896–1915 William Moore, later Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1915–1930.