The
diocese was founded in the year 598
AD.
It is located in the south eastern corner of Ireland, and
comprises most of County Wexford and parts of counties Wicklow and
Carlow. The Catholic population of the diocese is 102,000 (January
2006).
News and Views
"Renew
us in the faith which is our life and salvation"
Pastoral Letter of Holy Father to Catholics of Ireland
Homily by Bishop Denis Brennan at Annual Mass in Arbour Hill "Easter
Week 1916 set the Irish people on a new path. Not everything that
has happened since has been glorious but because of that unexpected,
and initially unpromising, rendezvous with destiny, we have been able
to chart our own distinctive course as a free people.....", says Bishop
Brennan at the Annual Mass for all who died in 1916.
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Lockout Commemoration Bishop
Brennan leading the prayers at the 1912 Lockout Commemoration in Wexford town on Saturday 12 May 2012.
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Diocese of Ferns, Bishop's House, PO Box 40, Summerhill, Wexford, Ireland
To contact the Secretary, Telephone: 053-9122177 Fax: 053-9123436 Email: adm@ferns.ie
