Dean of Kildare
The Dean of Kildare is based at The Cathedral Church of [St Brigid, Kildare] in the united Diocese of Meath and Kildare within the Church of Ireland.
The current dean is the Very Reverend Tim Wright.
List of deans of Kildare
- 1272 - after 1279 Stephen
- 1521 Edward Dillon
- ?–1540 William Miagh
- David Stubin
- 1553 Denis Ellan
- Thomas Ellis
- 1610,1615 Walter Walsh
- 1625/6 Walter Cleborne
- 1660/1–1675 Christopher Golborne
- 1675–1677 John Worth
- 1677/8–1678/9 Simon Digby
- 1679–1708 Samuel Synge
- 1708–1725 John Clayton
- 1725–1736 Sankey Winter
- 1736/7–1745 Gabriel James Maturin
- 1746–1765 Philip Fletcher
- 1765–1771 William Fletcher
- 1772–1782 Edward Ledwich
- 1782–1787 Robert King
- 1787–1808 Dixie Blundell
- 1808–1809 Arthur John Preston
- 1809–1834 Thomas Trench
- 1834-1859 James Gregory
- 1859–?1890 Sir John Wolseley, 8th Baronet
- 1890–1913 George Young Cowell
- 1913 Edward Hardress Waller
- 1928–1938 Herbert Newcome Craig
- 1974–1989 John Paterson
- ?–1995 Matthew Byrne
- 1995–2006 Robert Towneley
- 2006–2016 John Marsden
- 2016-2018 vacant
- 2018–present Tim Wright