12.05.2017
Memorial Service for Dean Victor Griffin
A memorial service for the former Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, the Very Revd Victor Griffin, will take place this Sunday, May 14, at 3.15 pm in the cathedral. The service will be attended by President Michael D Higgins and the current Dean, the Very Revd William Morton, will preside. The preacher will be the Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven David Pierpoint.
Dean Griffin died earlier this year (January 11 2017). He was Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral from 1968 to 1991.
Born in Carnew, County Wicklow, in 1924, Dean Griffin was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College Dublin. He was ordained in 1948 for curacy at St Augustine’s in Derry. He served a second curacy at Christ Church in Derry where he became Rector in 1957 until 1968 when he was appointed Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral. He retired in 1991 and was living in Limavady.
Victor Griffin married Daphne Mitchell of Londonderry at All Saints’, Londonderry in May 1958; a teacher, she died of Multiple Sclerosis in 1998. The couple had twin sons, Kevin and Timothy, born in 1959.