Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014), was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland. He became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Paisley became known for his fiery sermons and regularly preached and protested against Roman Catholicism, ecumenism and homosexuality. He gained a large group of followers who were referred to as Paisleyites. Paisley became involved in Ulster unionist/loyalist politics in the
Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) The Anglican Archbishop of Armagh is the ecclesiastical head of the Church of Ireland, bearing the title Primate of All Ireland, the metropolitan of the Province of Armagh and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Armagh. The diocese traces its history to Saint Patrick in the 5th century, who founded the See. His current successor is Bishop Richard Clarke, who was enthroned at his cathedra in St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh on 15 December 2012 and signs as "+Richard ARMAGH". Saint Patrick, having received some grants of land from the chieftain Daire, on