Bishop of Fore

The Bishop of was head of an historic Irish diocese,[1] firstly subsumed by the Diocese of Meath[2] and now within the Diocese of Meath and Kildare.

Its hub was the settlement of Fore, County Westmeath.[3]

Bishops
Bishops of Fore
From Until Incumbent Notes
745 765 Suarlech "Abbat and Bishop of Fore; died 27 March that year (Archdall ibid)
765 766 Ardgene
unknown 869 Gnia "Abbat and Bishop" (Archdall)
unknown 882 Ailioll
unknown 887 Cormac "also Coadjutor Bishop of Clonmacnoise" (Archdall)
unknown 927 Moel Poile
Sources: [4][5][6]

Senior clergy

The only recorded officer of the diocese below that of bishop is Cormac O'Ruadrach.[7]

See also

References
  1. 'Monasticum Hibernicum; or, an history of the abbeys, priories, and other religious houses in Ireland' Archdall,M. (Dublin: printed for Luke White, 1786)
  2. Cogan, Anthony (1862). The diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. Vol. 1. Dublin: J.F. Fowler.
  3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p149 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  4. Brady 1876, The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2, pp. 127–128.
  5. Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 430 and 432–433.
  6. Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, Maps, Genealogies, Lists, p. 362.
  7. "Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society" p29: Dundalk, W.Tempest, 1904

Sources
  • Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 3. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, Reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
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