The Dean of Down is based in The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Downpatrick within the Diocese of Down and Dromore of the Church of Ireland.
The current incumbent is T. Henry Hull.
Deans of Down
[edit]- 1541 Connor Magennis[1]
- 1609β1622 John Gibson[1]
- 1623β1627 Robert Dawson (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1627)[1]
- 1627β1635 Henry Leslie (afterwards Bishop of Down and Connor, 1635[1]
- 1635 William Coote (died before 1657)
- 1661/2 Thomas Bayly (afterwards Archdeacon of Connor, 1663 and then Bishop of Killala and Achonry, 1664)[1]
- 1663/4β1669 Daniel Witter (afterwards Bishop of Killaloe[1]
- 1669β1681/2 William Sheridan (afterwards Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, 1682)[1]
- 1682β1682 Benjamin Phipps[1]
- 1682/3β1709 John M'Neale[1]
- 1709β1717 Ralph Lambert (afterwards Bishop of Dromore, 1717)[1]
- 1717β1721 Benjamin Pratt[1]
- 1721/2β1723 Charles Fairfax[1]
- 1723/4β1731 William Gore[1]
- 1731/2β1739 Richard Daniel[1]
- 1739β1744 Thomas Fletcher (afterwards Bishop of Dromore, 1744)[1]
- 1744β1768 Patrick Delany[1]
- 1768β1787 James Dickson[1]
- 1787β1817 Hon William Annesley[1]
- 1817β1831 Edmund Knox (afterwards Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, 1831)[1]
- 1831β1839 Thomas Plunket (afterwards Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, 1839)[1]
- 1839β1855 Theophilus Blakely[1]
- 1856β1876 Thomas Woodward
- 1876β1887 Edward Busteed Moeran
- 1887β1912 Edward Maguire
- 1912β1923 John Pierce Brown
- 1923β1938 William Patrick Carmody
- 1938β1945 Cyril Elliott (afterwards Dean of Belfast, 1945)
- 1945β1954 Frederick Hatch
- 1955β1963 Walter Horatio Good
- 1964β1968 Alfred Weller Mussen Stanley Mann
- 1968β1980 Robert William Thomas Howard Kilpatrick
- 1980β?1987 John Herbert Rosmund Good
- 1987β1996 Hamilton Leckey
- 1997β2006 John Frederick Dinnen
- 2006β2024 Thomas Henry Hull
- 2025βpresent William Henry Blair
