Dean of Limerick and Ardfert
The Dean of Limerick and Ardfert is a Church of Ireland official based in the Cathedral Church of St Mary's in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert.
There had been two separate deans, Dean of Limerick and Dean of Ardfert, until the position was united in 1987. The Dean of Ardfert had been based at Ardfert Cathedral, until it was destroyed by fire in 1641.
The current incumbent, since 2017, is The Very Reverend Niall Sloane.
List of deans of Limerick
- 1588–1603 Denis Campbell
- 1603–1635 George Andrew
- 1635–1635 Michael Wandesford
- 1635 Henry Sutton
- 1640 Robert Naylor
- 1661–1666 Richard Boyle
- 1666–1679 John Smith
- 1679 Thomas Hynde
- 1692–1704 Ezechiel Webbe
- 1704 George Water Story
- 1721 Thomas Bindon
- 1740–1766 Charles Massy
- 1766–1771 John Averell
- 1771–1809 Maurice Crosbie
- 1809–1844 Arthur John Preston
- 1844–1849 William Higgin
- 1849–1868 Anthony Kirwan
- 1868–1872 Maurice Day
- 1872–1899 Thomas Bunbury
- 1899–1905 James Gregg
- 1905–1913 Lucius O'Brien
- 1913–1928 Aylmer Hackett
- 1929–1953 George Swain
- 1954–1971 Maurice Talbot
- 1971–1981 Walton Empey
- 1981–1986 George Chambers
Deans of Ardfert
- 1603–1603 Richard Southwell
- 1603 Robert Chaffe
- 1619/20–1628 William Steere
- 1630 Charles Baden
- 1635 Thomas Gray
- 1661 Daniel Witter
- 1664 Thomas Bladen
- 1686 John Richards
- 1727/8 James Bland
- 1728 William Smyth
- 1732–1747 Charles Meredyth, son of Thomas Meredyth of Newtown, co. Meath
- 1747–1766 Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet
- 1766–1772 Edward Bayly
- 1785–1802 Thomas Graves
- 1802–1842 Gilbert Holmes
- 1847–1861 Arthur Irwin
- 1861–1879 John Godfrey Day
- 1879–1894 Thomas Moriarty
- 1895–1906 Abraham Isaac
- 1906–1911 James MacEwan
- 1911–1917 Robert Beatty
- 1918–1924 George Power
- 1924–1946 Robert Rowan
- 1947–1959 Charles Haines
- 1959–1966 Robert Thompson
- 1966–1985 Charles Gray-Stack
Deans of Limerick and Ardfert
- 1987–2011 Maurice Sirr
- 2012–2017 Sandra Pragnell
- 2017–current Niall Sloane