Dean of Dromore

The Dean of Dromore has responsibility for Dromore Cathedral in the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland.

Deans of Dromore

• 1693/4 Isaac Plume
• 1609 William Todd
• 1621 Thomas Wilson
• 1622 John Wall
• 1623 Robert Dawson
• 1628/9 William Moore
• 1632/3–1638 George Synge (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, 1638)
• 1638–1641 Robert Forward
• 1642–1673 Nicholas Greaves
• 1673–1681 William Smyth (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1681)
• 1681–1721 John Leslie
• 1721/2 Henry Leslie
• 1721/2 George Berkeley (afterwards Dean of Derry, 1724)
• 1724–1729 John Hamilton (son-in-law of Francis Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor)
• 1729–1759 Samuel Hutchinson (afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1759)
• 1759–1772 Walter Cope (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1772)
• 1772–1772 Hon. Joseph Deane Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1772)
• 1772–1808 Raphael Walsh
• 1809–1837 James Mahon
• 1841–1842 William Henry Wynne
• 1842–1850 Holt Waring
• 1851–1875 Daniel Bagot
• 1879–1885 Jeffry Lefroy
• 1885–1887 Henry Stewart
• 1887–1894 Theophilus Campbell
• 1894-1905 Abraham Dawson
• 1905–1925 Robert Stuart O'Loughlin
• 1925–1931 Thomas William Clarendon
• 1931–1932 Henry Biddall Swanzy
• 1945–1951 Edward Albert Myles
• 1951–1957 Wilfred R.M. Orr
• 1957–1961 William A. Jones
• 1961–1964 John William Appleby
• 1964–1965 Arthur Theodore Irving Forde
• 1965–1971 Henry Hughes
• 1971–1975 Hugh Hastings Richard Mayes
• 1975–1984 R.J. Norman Lockhart
• 1990-1992 Mervyn Robert Wilson
• 1993–1995 Roland Hutchinson
• 1995–2002 David Robert Chillingworth (afterwards Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 2005)
• 2002–2013 Stephen H. Lowry
• 2014–2015 Bryan T. Kerr (Resigned 30 November 2015)
• 2016–present Geoff Wilson

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