{{Short description|Church of Ireland official}} {{moresources|date=February 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=February 2020}} The '''Dean of Ferns''' is based at The Cathedral Church of St Edan, Ferns in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland.
The incumbent is Paul Mooney.
==List== thumb|right|Ferns Cathedral *1272–1282 Richard of Northampton (appointed Bishop of Ferns 1282)<ref >Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 p.53</ref > *1558–1559 John Garvie (afterwards Archdeacon of Meath and Bishop of Kilmore 1585)<ref name = FEH>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r5YAAAAAcAAJ&q=Chapter+of+Ferns&pg=PA74| title = Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates and ..., Volume 2 By Henry Cotton| page = 347| access-date = 11 February 2012| last1 = Cotton| first1 = Henry| year = 1848}}</ref> *1559 John Devereux (appointed Bishop of Ferns, 1566 but with right to retain deanery ''in commendam'' for five years)<ref name = FEH/> *1568/9 Walter Turner<ref name = FEH/> *1590 William Campyon or Champion <ref name = FEH/> *1601–1625 Thomas Ram (afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1605 but retaining deanery ''in commendam'')<ref name = FEH/> *1610 (John Thoms)?<ref name = FEH/> *1625/6 Thomas Ram jnr<ref name = FEH/> *1628/9 Robert Wilson<ref name = FEH/> *1642/3 Anthony Proctor<ref name = FEH/> *1661 John Watson<ref name = FEH/> *1666–1670 John Creighton<ref name = FEH/> *1670–1672 Benjamin Phipps (afterwards Dean of Down, 1682)<ref name = FEH/> *1682–1694 Tobias Pullen (afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, 1694)<ref name = FEH/> *1694 Thomas Cox<ref name = FEH/> *1719–1720 William Crosse (afterwards Dean of Lismore 1720)<ref name = FEH/> *1720–1724 Arthur Price (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1724) <ref name = FEH/> *1724–1727/8 Pascal (or Paul) Ducasse (afterwards Dean of Clogher, 1717)<ref name = FEH/> *1727/8– Thomas Sawbridge<ref name = FEH/> *1733–1734 George Stone (afterwards Dean of Derry 1734 and later Bishop of Ferns, 1740)<ref name = FEH/> *1734–1740 Joseph Story (afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, 1740)<ref name = FEH/> *1740–1747 Robert Watts (afterwards Dean of Kilkenny, 1747)<ref name = FEH/> *1747–1769 John Alcock<ref name = FEH/> *1769–1787 Richard Marlay (afterwards Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, 1787)<ref name = FEH/> *1787–1794 Hon Thomas Stopford (afterwards Bishop of Cork and Ross, 1794)<ref name = FEH/> *1794–1842 Peter Browne<ref name = FEH/> *1842–1862 Henry Newland<ref name = FEH/> *1862–1862 Hamilton Verschoyle (afterwards Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, 1862) *1863–1879 William Atkins *1879–1892 John R Dowse *1892–1896 Charles Hind *1896–1897 Humphrey Eakins Ellison *1897–1898 Jonathan Sisson Cooper *1899–1908 John Alexander *1908–1926 Thomas Brownell Gibson *1926–1932 Henry Cameron Lyster *1932–1936 William Gibson *1936–1949 Alfred Forbes *1949–1979 Thomas Henry Crampton McFall *1979–1994 David Kaye Lee Earl *1995–2011 Leslie David Arthur Forrest *2011–present Paul Gerard Mooney
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Office holders in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory}} {{Deans in the Church of Ireland}}
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