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Kenneth Wilkinson (priest)

Irish Anglican priest (1931–2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ39182199
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Kenneth Samuel Wilkinson (1931 – 17 October 2021) was an Irish Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Ferns from 1998 until 2008.

Wilkinson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1961. He was a curate at St. Michan, Dublin then the Incumbent at Killegney from 1967 to 1970. After that he was at Enniscorthy until 2002. Wilkinson died on 17 October 2021, at the age of 90.

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This entry incorporates text from Kenneth Wilkinson (priest)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.