The Archdeacon of Dublin is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.Diocesan web site The Archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 within the Dublin part of the diocese,History of the City of Dublin, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Day, Volume 1 p299 John Warburton, J; Whitelaw, J, Walsh, R (Eds): London, T.Cadell and W.Davies, 1818 which is by far the largest.Crockford's on line, accessed 5 January 2015.
The archdeaconry can trace its history back to Torquil, who held the office at some point during Lorcán Ua Tuathail's reign as Archbishop of Dublin and is theorised by George Thomas Stokes to have been of Danish descent."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. pp127-1 32 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 The current incumbent is David Pierpoint.Ireland Anglican In between, many of them went on to higher office: William Chaumbre Geoffrey de Turville Nicholas de Clere Nicholas Hill Robert Dyke Thomas Bache Henry Ussher Launcelot Bulkeley Richard Reader Enoch Reader Richard Pococke Robert Fowler James Saurin John Winthrop Crozier Samuel Greenfield Poyntz Noel Vincent Willoughby Robert Warke Gordon Linney
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