Roman Catholic Diocese of Kerry
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The Diocese of Kerry (Irish: Deoise Chiarraí) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in south-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly.
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Diocese of Kerry Dioecesis Kerriensis Deoise Chiarraí | |
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Location | |
Country | Ireland |
Territory | Most of County Kerry and part of County Cork |
Ecclesiastical province | Cashel and Emly |
Metropolitan | Cashel and Emly |
Statistics | |
Area | 2,047 sq mi (5,300 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 153,100 146,790 (95.9%) |
Parishes | 53 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Latin |
Established | 12th century (as Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe) 20 December 1952 (as Diocese of Kerry) |
Cathedral | St Mary's, Killarney |
Patron saint | Brendan |
Secular priests | 54 (as of 2018) |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Raymond Browne, Bishop of Kerry |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Kieran O'Reilly, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly |
Vicar General | Fr. Seán Hanafin |
Bishops emeritus | William Murphy, Bishop of Kerry |
Website | |
dioceseofkerry.ie |
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The cathedral church of the diocese is St Mary's Cathedral in Killarney, County Kerry.
The incumbent bishop of the diocese is Raymond Browne.