The
archdeaconry can trace its history back to
Luke Netterville who held the office in 1207. The current incumbent is Rev Dr Peter Thompson. In between, some of them went on to higher office: •
Robert Luttrell, (also Treasurer of
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and later
Lord Chancellor of Ireland c.1236-1246) •
John Vesey (later
Archbishop of Tuam, 1679–1716) •
Charles Este (later
Bishop of Ossory and
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore •
Edward Stopford (later
Bishop of Meath (1842–1850)) •
Charles King Irwin (later
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1934–1942) and
Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore (1942–1944)) ==References==