Cloyne, Diocese of (CLOYNE, DIOCESI DI) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 1095

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CLOYNE, DIOCESE of. - In Ireland, suffragan of Cashel. The name derives from the Gaelic Cluain (= meadow). The diocese was founded ca. 580 by St. Colman, its first bishop, who is also its patron. The see of C. was united with that of Cork from 1450 until 1747, when it was separated by Benedict XIV. The diocese of C. therefore prides itself on having had among its bishops Blessed Taddeo MacCarthy (v. CORK, DIOCESI di).

The modern cathedral at Cbbh, completed in the present century, is much admired as a model of Neo-Gothic style. The diocese has an area of 3,440 sq. km.; it has 47 parishes, 103 churches, 155 diocesan priests, 19 regular clergy, and a seminary; schools are conducted by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and by other lay religious families. There are 25 religious houses; the Catholic population is 103,412 out of 105,483 inhabitants.

BIBL.: Annals of the four Masters, ed. J. O'Donovan, 7 vols., 2nd ed., Dublin 1856 (cf. vol. VII, Index); W. M. Brady, Records of Cork, C. and Ross, 3 vols., Dublin and London 1864; id., Episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, 2 vols., Rome 1876-77; Journal of the Cork Hist. and Archeol. Society, passim; J. O'Riordan, s. V. in Cath. Enc., IV, pp. 72-73; Irish Catholic Directory, 1949, Dublin 1949, pp. 271-78.

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