{{Short description|Church of Ireland clergyman (1936–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Brian Hannon | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|10|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|1|10|1936|10|6|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = | education = Trinity College Dublin | movement = Church of Ireland | parents = | spouse = | children = Neil Hannon }}
'''Brian Desmond Anthony Hannon''' (5 October 1936 – 10 January 2022) was a Church of Ireland clergyman, who was Bishop of Clogher from 1986 to 2001. He was also the father of the singer and songwriter Neil Hannon, lead member of The Divine Comedy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishnews.com/arts/2016/09/30/news/neil-hannon-the-hardest-thing-for-me-is-to-simplify-712978/|title=Neil Hannon: The hardest thing for me is to simplify|first=Richard|last=Purden|website=The Irish News|date=30 September 2016|access-date=24 January 2022}}</ref>
Hannon was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and ordained in 1962. His first post was a curacy in Clooney, County Londonderry; after which he was the incumbent at Desertmartin, County Londonderry. He ministered in Derry, County Londonderry, from 1969 to 1982, during the time of The Troubles.<ref>Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}}</ref> He then moved to the Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher, as rector of the Cathedral Parish of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh,<ref>[http://www.enniskillencathedral.com/history.html Enniskillen Cathedral]</ref> and became Dean of Clogher in 1985. He was raised to the episcopate as Bishop of Clogher in 1986.
He retired on 5 October 2001, his sixty-fifth birthday.<ref>[http://www.ireland.anglican.org/archives/pressreleases/prarchive2001/hanpres.html Clogher Diocese Says Farewell To Retiring Bishop]</ref> Hannon died on 10 January 2022, at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/19836799.bishop-clogher-right-rev-brian-hannon-dies-85/|title=Bishop of Clogher, the Right Rev. Brian Hannon (85) passes away|work=The Impartial Reporter|date=10 January 2022|access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref>
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