KILLALA, Diocese of. - It comprises parts of the Irish counties of Mayo and Sligo.

Out of a population of 56,980 inhabitants, it counts 55,246 Catholics (1936 census), distributed among 22 parishes, served by 55 diocesan priests; it has an ecclesiastical college (St. Muredach's College), 6 communities of women religious, 108 primary schools, 5 secondary schools and 2 vocational schools. It is a suffragan of Tuam. The episcopal residence is in Ballina.

Its first bishop was St. Muredach, to whom St. Patrick entrusted, in the middle of the 5th century, the care of the church called Cell Alaid, from which the diocese derived the title of Allodensis. The patron of the diocese is St. Muredach himself (feast on 12 Aug.). Almost nothing is known of the succession of the bishops of K. until the end of the 12th century; in the Middle Ages the Franciscans had the famous convent of Moyne and later that of Rosserk, founded in 1460; the Dominicans had the abbey of Rathfran.

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BIBL.: P. B. Gams, Series epis. eccl. cath., Ratisbona 1873, pp. 224-25; W. M. Brady, The episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland (1400-1875), II, Roma 1876, pp. 170-83; Eubel, I, p. 79; II, p. 94; III, p. 111; J. Healy, s. v. in Cath. Enc., VIII, pp. 640-41; Irish cath. Directory and Almanach, 1950, Dublino 1950, pp. 353-56.

Benigno Millett

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