Edward Darling


Edward Flewett Darling was Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe from 1985 to 2000.

Biography

Darling was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1956: his first posts being curacies in Belfast. He then held incumbencies at St Gall’s Carnalea, County Down and St John’s Malone, Belfast before his ordination to the episcopate.
William Flewett, his grandfather, was Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross from 1933 to 1938.