Clergy of the Old Cathedral

St Mary’s Cathedral  (Our Lady of Perpetual Succour from 1986)

PP = Parish Priest | c = Assistant Priest                                      

Deyonghe   (1840-1841)  PP

                                        Thomas Walsh  (1841-1844)  PP

                                        Robert Gibson  (1844-1846)  PP

                                        B Branighan  (1846-1848)  PP 

                                        Joseph M(a)cPhillips  (1848-1853)  PP

                                        Andrew Burns  (1853-1872)  PP

                                                                     Joseph Hurst  (1865-1866)  c

                                                                     Stephen Dolan  (1866-1867)  c

                                                                     Xavier De Vacht  (1867-1868)  c

                                                                     Thomas Parkin  (1868-1870)  c

                                                                     Adrian Van Meerendonck  (1871-1872)  c

                                                                     Adrian Van Den Heuvel  (1871-1874)  c

                                        Richard Lacy  (1872-1879)  PP

                                                                     Daniel Torpey  (1873-1874)  c

                                                                     Lawrence Schoch  (1873-1876)  c

                                                                     William Sullivan  (1874-1876)  c

                                                                     John Consemius  (1876-1879)  c

                                                                     James Molloy  (1876-1879)  c

                                                                     James Redding  (1877-1878)  c

                                                                     John R Macdonnell  (1878-1879)  c

                                        Joseph Molloy  (1879-1880)  Administrator

                                        [Richard Lacy  in residence as Bishop (1879-1929)]

                                                                     Edmund Hickey  (1879-1902)  c

                                                                     John Consemius  (1879-1880)  c

                                                                     John MacDonnell  (1879-1880)  c

                                        John MacDonnell  (1880-1881)  Administrator

                                                                     Jeremiah Murphy  (1880-1881)  c

                                                                     Charles Wood  (1880-1881)  c

                                        Charles Dawson  (1881-1887)  Administrator

                                                                     James Brady  (1881-1883)  c

                                                                     James Butler  (1881-1882)  c

                                                                     John Leadbetter  (1881-1882)  c

                                                                     Thomas Casey  (1882-1888)  c

                                                                     James Nolan  (1882-1886)  c

                                                                     Edmund Crook  (1882-1883)  c

                                                                     John Murphy  (1883-1884)  c

                                                                     Patrick Leahy  (1884-1885)  c

                                                                     Patrick Connery  (1885-1886)  c

                                                                     Joseph Stourton   (1885-1886)  c

                                                                     Francis Gerard  (1886-1888)  c

                                                                     Patrick Hennessey  (1886-1888)  c

                                                                     Timothy Reidy  (1886-1887)  c

                                        James Butler  (1887-1889)  Administrator

                                                                     Patrick Leahy  (1887-1889)  c

                                                                     Bernard McCabe  (1888-1892) (c)

                                                                     John Browne  (1888-1889)  c

                                        Charles Wood  (1889-1896)  PP

                                                                     Michael McElduff  (1889-1892)  c

                                                                     William Desmond  (1889-1890)  c

                                                                     Patrick Kiernan  (1890-1895)  c

                                                                     Francis Loughnan  (1890-1894)  c

                                                                     Augustine D’Hooghe  (1892-1893)  c

                                                                     Patrick Duffy  (1892-1893)  c

                                                                     Peter Matthews  (1893-1894)  c

                                        William McNaughten  (1894-1906)  Administrator

                                                                     John McCabe  (?1894-1915)  c

                                                                     Timothy Twomey  (1894-1901)  c

                                                                     William Donnelly  (1895-1903)  c

                                                                     Gabriel Ryan  (1895-1896)  c

                                                                     Michael Hayes  (1896-1899)  c

                                                                     Cornelius English  (1896-1898)  c

                                                                     Albert Gryspeert  (1898-1899)  c

                                                                     Patrick Lynn  (1899-1906)  c

                                                                     Benvenutus Guy  (1899-1902)  c

                                                                     Geoffrey Cremer  ( -1900)  c

                                                                     William Finn  (1900-1908)  c

                                                                     Vincent Calvert  (1900-1907)  c

                                                                     Michael Dillon  (1904-1905)  c

                                                                     Richard Roche  (1905-1913)  c

                                        Patrick Lynn  (1906-1921)  Administrator

                                                                     Jeremiah O’Leary  (1906-1911)  c

                                                                     James Barry  (1907-1912)  c

                                                                     Alphonsus VanDenBosche  (1908-1909)  c

                                                                     Patrick Macken  (1909-1916)  c

                                                                     Daniel Kelly  (1912-1913)  c

                                                                     Edward O’Rourke  (1912-1913)  c

                                                                     Henry O’Rourke  (1913-1924)  c

                                                                     Thomas Stack  (1913-1914)  c

                                                                     Patrick Gerrity  (1913-1914)  c

                                                                     Francis Lynch  (1914/15-1924)  c                            

                                                                     William Warmbold  (1914-1915)  c

                                                                     Bernard Wilson  (1914-1915)  c

                                                                     George Kiernan  (1915-1920)  c

                                                                     John Bigland  (1916-1918)  c

                                                                     Francis Connolly  (1918)  c

                                                                     James McMullan  (1918-1931)  c

                                                                     Patrick Nerney  (1920-1932)  c

                                        Thomas Shine  (1921-1927)  (in residence as Bishop)

                                                                     Thomas Reilly  (1921-1926)  c

                                                                     Eugene O’Reilly  (1923)  c

                                                                     Denis Luddy  (1924-1927)  c

                                                                     Leonard Cornwall  (1925-1926)  c

                                                                     Francis Holland  (1926-1935)  c

                                        Denis Luddy  (1927-1934)  Administrator

                                                                     Patrick Loughran  (1928-1929)  c

                                                                     James (Mc)Cormack  (1929-1930)  c

                                                                     James Skehan  (1930-1933)  c

                                                                     Patrick Fitzgerald  (1931-1936)  c

                                                                     Gerard Croker  (1932-1934)  c

                                                                     Michael Deehan  (1933-1936)  c

                                        Stephen O’Brien  (1934-1936)  Administrator

                                                                     Michael O’Sullivan  (1934-1938)  c

                                                                     Thomas Reilly  (1935-1938)  c

                                                                     George Empson  (1935-1936)  c

                                        Nathaniel Dunn  (1936-1943)  Administrator

                                                                     George O’Connor  (1936-1943)  c

                                                                     James Murphy  (1937-1940)  c

                                                                     Mark Crowley  (1938-1952)  c

                                                                     Patrick Lannen  (1938-1939)  c

                                                                     Michael O’Sullivan  (1941-1943)  c

                                                                     Peter Storey  (1941-1943)  c

                                        Michael O’Sullivan  (1943-1967)  Administrator

                                                                     Patrick Keoghan  (1943-1948)  c

                                                                     James O’Brien [1]  (1943-1947)  c

                                                                     Donal O’Byrne  (1943-1956)

                                                                     Joseph Woods  (1947-1953)  c

                                                                     Thomas Farrell  (1948-1950)  c

                                                                     Daniel Cahill  (1951-1959)  c

                                                                     Denis Manley  (1952-1954)  c

                                                                     Christopher Keating  (1953-1962)  c

                                                                     Joseph Woods  (1954-1957)  c

                                                                     Nicholas O’Connell  (1956-1957)  c

                                                                     Patrick O’Byrne  (1957-1958)  c

                                                                     Geoffrey Power (1958-1963)  c

                                                                     Arthur Dutton  (1958-1961)  c

                                                                     David Fitzgibbon  (1960-1969)  c

                                                                     Austin O’Neill  (1961-1962)  c

                                                                     Noel Davis  (1962-1964)  c

                                                                     John Barry  (1963-1967)  c

                                                                     James Curran  (1963-1965)  c

                                                                     Thomas Brophy  (1964-1970)  c

                                                                     Philip Battersby  (1965-1968)  c

                                        Robert Carson  (1967-1983)  Administrator

                                                                     John Day  (1969-1971)  c

                                                                     Peter Ryan  (1970-1978)  c

                                                                     David Hogan  (1978-1984)  (in residence)

                                        Patrick Smith  (1983-1984)  Administrator

                                        Peter Keeling  (1984-1986)  Administrator

(from 1986, it was no longer the Cathedral, but the parish continued under the title Our Lady of Perpetual Succour)

                                        -     -        (1986-1993)  (PP)

(thereafter served from the John Paul Centre 1993-1996 and from St Patrick’s from 1996)  

(amalgamated with Sacred Heart parish from 2000)