"Dublin gives title to an archbishop, who is styled Primate of Ireland, and whose province includes the following united dioceses:-Dublin, Glendalough, and Kildare, which forms the see of the archbishop; Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin; Cashel, Emly, Waterford, Killaloe and Kilfenora, Cork, Cloyne, Ross, Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, and Lismore.
The bishopric of Dublin, founded by St. Patrick, was erected into an archbishopric in 1152; and in 1214 the see of Glendalough, now nominal, was annexed. By the Church Temporalities Act, passed in 1833, the bishopric of Kildare was consolidated with the sees of Dublin and Glendalough. The archiepiscopal see comprises 183 benefices, of which 139 are in Dublin and 44 in Kildare. Christ Church Cathedral, a venerable cruciform structure, consists of a dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, and archdeacon of Dublin, 3 prebendaries, and 6 vicars-choral. The cathedral of St. Patrick is also a cruciform pile, 300 feet in length; it comprises a dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, the archdeacons of Dublin and Glendalough, and various prebendaries.
The metropolitan parishes are all in the diocese of Dublin, and consist of the following:- St. Andrew's, a rectory; St. Anne's, a vicarage; St. Audeon's, a rectory; St. Bridget's, or St. Bride's, a perpetual curacy; St. Catherine's, a vicarage; St. George's, a rectory; Grangegorman, partly within the new electoral boundary, N. of the city, and partly in the county of Dublin, a perpetual curacy; St. James's, a vicarage; St. John's, a prebend; St. Luke's, a vicarage; St. Mark's, a vicarage; St. Mary's, a rectory; St. Michael's, a prebend; St. Michan's, a prebend; St. Nicholas Within, a perpetual curacy; St. Nicholas Without, a perpetual curacy; St. Paul's, a rectory; St. Peter's, a vicarage; St. Thomas, a rectory; and St. Werburgh's, a rectory Dublin is also divided into nine Roman Catholic parishes or ecclesiastical districts: St. Mary's, St. Michan's, St. Paul's, St. Andrew's, St. Audeon's, St. Catherine's, St. James's, St. Michael's, St. John's, and St. Nicholas's. It is also a Roman Catholic archiepiscopal see. The ecclesiastical duties are executed by 9 parochial priests and 52 clergy.
The principal Roman Catholic chapels are the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Marlborough-street; that of St. Francis Xavler, in Upper Gardner-street; the Dominican chapel, in Denmark-street; the chapel in North Anne-street; the chapel of St. Francis, in Churchstreet; the chapel in Westland-row; and a chapel in Whitefriar-street.
Of Presbyterian meeting-houses, there are four, situated in Chapel-street, Usher's Quay, Eustace-street, and Great Strand-street; the two former are of the Church of Scotland, and the two latter Unitarian.
There are three congregations of Independents, whose places of worship are in D'Olier-street, King's Inns-street, and York-street.
The Methodist chapels are in Whitefriar-street, Abbey-street, Cork-street, Hendrick-street, South Great George-street, and Langrishe-place.
There are also two Baptist congregations, a Moravian congregation, a church for German Lutherans, and a meeting-house for Quakers.
The Jews have a synagogue....."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]
