Diocese of Limerick Dioecesis Limericiensis Deoise Luimnigh
St John's Cathedral, Limerick
Location
Country	Ireland
Territory	Most of County Limerick and parts of counties Clare and Kerry
Ecclesiastical province	Cashel and Emly
Metropolitan	Cashel and Emly
Statistics
Area	811 sq mi (2,100 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2016) 192,300 184,300 (95.8%)
Parishes	60
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin
Cathedral	St John's, Limerick
Patron saint	Ss Munchin and Ita
Secular priests	65 (as of 2018)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Brendan Leahy, Bishop of Limerick
Metropolitan Archbishop	Kieran O'Reilly, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly
Bishops emeritus	Donal Murray
Map
Website
limerickdiocese.org

The Diocese of Limerick (Irish: Deoise Luimnigh) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly.

The cathedral church of the diocese is St John's Cathedral in Limerick.

The incumbent bishop of the diocese is Brendan Leahy.

Geography

The diocese is divided into 60 parishes, which are spread across three counties: 57 in Limerick (18 of which are in the Limerick city area), two in Clare, and one between Limerick and Kerry.

The parishes are grouped into 16 Pastoral Units, where groups of priests are appointed to cover a number of parishes between them.^[1]

As of 2018, there were 65 priests in active ministry, 27 of whom were over the age of 65.^[2]

Aside from the cathedral city of Limerick, the main towns in the diocese are Abbeyfeale, Adare, Kilmallock, Newcastle West, and Rathkeale.

Ordinaries

The following is a list of the ten most recent bishops:

• Charles Tuohy (1814–1828)
• John Ryan (1828–1864)
• George Butler (1864–1886)
• Edward Thomas O'Dwyer (1886–1917)
• Denis Hallinan (1918–1923)
• David Keane (1923–1945)
• Patrick O'Neill (1945–1958)
• Henry Murphy (1958–1973)
• Jeremiah Newman (1974–1995)
• Donal Murray (1996–2009)
• Sede vacante (2009–2013)
• Brendan Leahy (2013–present)

See also

• Catholic Church in Ireland
• Church of Ireland Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe

External links

• Official Diocesan website
• GCatholic
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Catholic Encyclopedia Profile
• Pastoral Unit List

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Limerick". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.