Enciclopedia Cattolica

CLOYNE, DIOCESI DI

Cloyne, Diocese of

Volume III · p. 1095 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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

CLOYNE, Diocese of. — In Ireland, a suffragan of Cashel. The name derives from the Gaelic Cluain (= meadow). The diocese was founded c. 580 by St Colman, its first bishop, who is also its patron. The see of Clonye was united to that of Cork from 1450 until 1747, when it was separated by Benedict XIV. The diocese of Cloyne therefore boasts among its bishops the Blessed Thaddeus MacCarthy (v. CORK, Diocese of).

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

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, Cloyne 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 Historical and Archaeological Society, passim; J. O'Riordan, s.V. in Cath. Enc., IV, pp. 71–73; Irish Catholic Directory, 1949, Dublin 1949, pp. 271–78. Dionysius MacDaid