John Neill

This article is about the Irish clergyman. For other persons named John Neill, see John Neill (disambiguation).

John Robert Winder Neill (born 17 December 1945) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin until the end of January 2011.

The fourth generation of his family to become a clergyman, John Neill was educated in Dublin at the Avoca School and at Sandford Park. He attended the University of Dublin (Trinity College), Jesus College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He became a deacon in 1969, a priest in 1970, and a bishop in 1986.^[1]

Affiliations

Member, Governing Body of University College Galway (1986–97)
Academic Council of the Irish School of Ecumenics
President, Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland (1990–94)
President of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (1999–2002)
Anglican Chairman of Porvoo Contact Group since 1998
Member, Central Committee of the World Council of Churches

At the Lambeth Conference in 1988 he proposed all the approved resolutions in respect of Women in the Episcopate and was chairman of the Church of Ireland General Synod Committee on Ordination of Women (1988–91). He has served on many central committees of the Church of Ireland covering issues such as liturgical reform, education, communications, ministry, Christian unity and synodical structures. He was co-founder and chairman of the Church of Ireland/Methodist Church Joint Theological Working Party.

Family

Neil and his wife Betty have three sons:

The Reverend Canon Stephen Neill, Rector of Cloughjordan, County Tipperary
Andrew Neill, a member of the Garda Síochána
Peter Neill, a photographer^[2]

Pastoral ministry positions

1969–1971: Curate of St Paul's Glenageary, Dublin
1971–1974: Bishop's Vicar, Diocesan Registrar and Librarian, St Canice's Cathedral, Ossory
1974–1978: Incumbent of Abbeystrewry Union (Ross)
1978–1984: St Bartholomew's with Christ Church, Leeson Park (Dublin)
1984–1986: Archdeacon of Waterford
1986–1997: Bishop of Tuam, Killalla and Achonry
1997–2002: Bishop of Cashel and Ossory (Elected 23 April 1997; consecrated later that month)^[3]
2002–2011: Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough, Primate of Ireland, and Metropolitan (Elected on 29 August 2002)^[3]

References

↑ See his entry at Crockford, the clerical directory of the United Kingdom & Ireland.
↑ www.peterneill.eu
1 2 Profile of the Most Revd Dr John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin. Retrieved on 8 January 2008.

External links

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by John Coote Duggan	Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry 1986–1997	Succeeded by Richard Crosbie Aitken Henderson
Preceded by Noel Vincent Willoughby	Bishop of Cashel and Ossory 1997–2002	Succeeded by Peter Barrett
Preceded by Walton Empey	Archbishop of Dublin 2002–2011	Succeeded by Michael Jackson

Anglican Archbishops of Dublin

Bishops of Tuam, Killala and Achonry

merged from Tuam & Killala and Achonry Thomas Plunket Charles Bernard James O'Sullivan Benjamin Plunket Arthur Edwin Ross John Orr John Harden William Hardy Holmes John Crozier Arthur Butler John Duggan John Neill Richard Henderson Patrick Rooke

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