David McClay
Irish Anglican bishop (born 1959)
David Alexander McClay (born 1959) is an Irish Anglican bishop.
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Biography
McClay is the current Bishop of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland.[1]
McClay was educated at Trinity College Dublin; and ordained an Anglican priest in 1988. His first post was a curacy at Magheralin. After this he held incumbencies at Kilkeel and Willowfield.[2] His appointment as Archdeacon of Down was announced in December 2016.
He was elected Bishop of Down and Dromore on 4 November 2019.[3] He is a leading member of the GAFCON Ireland.[4]
References
- ^ "Diocesan web-site". Retrieved 25 January 2020. [failed verification]
- ^ Willowfield Church
- ^ "David Alexander McClay". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ Authentic Anglicanism and False Fears, GAFCON Official Website, 28 January 2020
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Bishops of Down and Connor; of Down, Connor and Dromore; and of Down and Dromore
- Tiberio Ugolino
- Robert Blyth
- Eugene Magennis
- James MacCawell
- John Merriman
- Hugh Allen
- Edward Edgeworth
- John Charden
- Robert Humpston
- John Todd
- James Dundas
- Robert Echlin
- Henry Leslie
- Jeremy Taylor
- Roger Boyle
- Thomas Hacket
- Samuel Foley
- Edward Walkington
- Edward Smyth
- Francis Hutchinson
- Carew Reynell
- John Ryder
- John Whitcombe
- Robert Downes
- Arthur Smyth
- James Traill
- William Dickson
- Nathaniel Alexander
- Richard Mant (became Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore)
- Richard Mant
- Robert Knox
- William Reeves
- Thomas Welland
- John Crozier
- Charles D'Arcy
- Charles Grierson
- John MacNeice
- Charles King Irwin
- William Kerr
- Frederick Mitchell
- George Quin
- Robin Eames
- Gordon McMullan
- Harold Miller
- David McClay
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