Stained glass window at St Patrick's Cathedral showing the personal arms of Lord John Beresford impaled with those of the Diocese of Armagh

Province of Armagh

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Armagh, recorded at unknown date

Escutcheon: Azure an episcopal staff Argent ensigned with a cross pattée fitchée at all points Or surmounted by a pall of the second edged and fringed of the third charged with four crosses formée fitchée Sable. [1]

Clogher, granted 4 August 2006

Escutcheon: Azure a bishop in full pontificals Proper in the act of benediction and holding his pastoral staff in the left hand. [2][3]

Connor, granted 24 May 1945

Escutcheon: Azure a lamb passant supporting with the dexter foreleg a staff Proper flying therefrom a pennon Argent charged with a saltire Gules between three crosses crosslet Or on a chief of the last two crosiers in saltire of the field. [4]

Derry and Raphoe, granted 24 May 1945

Escutcheon: Gules two swords in saltire Proper the hilts in base Or on a chief Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (Derry) impaling Ermine a chief per pale Azure and Or the first charged with a sun in splendour of the last the second with a cross pattée Gules (Raphoe).[5]

Down and Dromore,

Escutcheon: Azure two keys in saltire the wards in chief Or surmounted in the fess point by a lamb passant Proper (Down) impaling Argent two keys in saltire the wards in chief Gules surmounted by an open book in fess Proper between two crosses pattées-fitchies in pale Sable (Dromore).[6]

Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, granted 24 May 1945

Escutcheon: In chief Argent on a cross Azure a pastoral staff enfiling a mitre all Or. (Kilmore) in base Sable two pastoral staves in saltire Or in base a lamb couchant Argent. (Elphin) impaling Or a cross Gules between four trefoils slipped Vert on a chief Sable a key erect Or. (Ardagh) [7]

Tuam, Killala and Achonry, granted 2012

Escutcheon: Azure beneath a triple architectural canopy three figures in the centre the Blessed Virgin Mary holding in her arms the Holy Child between on the dexter the figure of a bishop St Jarlath in pontificalibus and in the act of benediction and on the sinister St John supporting with his left arm a lamb Argent each in Proper vestments Or the hands feet and faces Proper (Tuam) impaling Gules a crosier in pale over it in the fess point an open book all Proper (Killala). No arms for Achonry.[8]

Province of Dublin

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Dublin and Glendalough, confirmed 5 April 2016

Escutcheon: Azure an episcopal staff Argent ensigned with a cross pattée fitchée at all points or surmounted by a pall of the second edged and fringed of the third charged with five crosses formée fitchée Sable the whole within a bordure also Gold. [9]

Cashel and Ossory

Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st Gules two keys in saltire the wards upwards Or (Cashel) 2nd Gules between five crosses patée fitchée a covered cup ensigned with a cross patée all Or (Ossory) 3rd Sable two crosiers indorsed in saltire suppressed by a mitre labelled Or (Ferns and Leighlin) 4th Vert two keys in saltire bows down Or between in chief a lion passant Argent in fess on the dexter an open Bible and on the sinister an annulet of the second in base six cloven tongues one two and three of the third the whole ensigned with a bishop’s mitre also Gold (Waterford and Lismore). [10]

Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Escutcheon: In chief Argent a cross pattée Gules thereon a mitre enfiling pastoral staff Or (Cork) in base Azure a mitre Proper labelled Or between three crosses pattée fitchee Argent (Cloyne). No arms for Ross.[11]

Limerick and Killaloe

Escutcheon: Azure two keys endorsed in saltire the wards upwards in the dexter chief a crozier paleways in the sinister a mitre all Or (Limerick) impaling Argent a cross Gules between twelve trefoils slipped Vert on a chief of the second a key in pale Or (Killaloe) [12]

Meath and Kildare, granted 10 December 2015

Escutcheon: Per pale dexter Sable three mitres two and one Argent (Meath) sinister Argent a saltire engrailed Gules on a chief Azure an open bible leaved Proper bound and slasped Or (Kildare).
Motto: The Law Was Given By Moses But Grace And Truth Come By Jesus. [13]

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Armagh". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Diocese of Clogher (Anglican)". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  3. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 202.
  4. ^ "Diocese of Connor". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  5. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 203.
  6. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 204.
  7. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 205.
  8. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 207.
  9. ^ "Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Diocese of Cashel and Ossory". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  11. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 212.
  12. ^ John Woodward (1894). A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. p. 213.
  13. ^ "Diocese of Meath and Kildare". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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