The Diocese of Duleek was an Irish diocese, firstly subsumed by the Diocese of Meath and now within the Diocese of Meath and Kildare.
It began as an early Christian monastic settlement. St Patrick established the bishopric circa 450 AD.
Bishops
| Bishops of Duleek | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 450 | 489 | St Cianan | He was descended from the royal blood of the kings of Munster. His feast day is 24 November |
| unknown | 778 | Feargus | |
| unknown | 870 | Gnia | "Abbat, Scribe, Anchorite and Bishop died in his 87th year" (Archdall) |
| unknown | 882 | Cormac | "also Abbat of Clonard" ([Archdall (ibid)) |
| unknown | 902 | Colman | |
| unknown | 927 | Tuathal | "Son of Oenecan" |
| unknown | 941 | Caon Combrach | |
| unknown | 1117 | Giolla Mochua | |
| Sources: | |||
Other Senior Clergy
| Archdeacons of Duleek | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| unknown | 904 | Eochy | Son of Socaragusa (Archdall) |
| unknown | 953 | Aengus | Son of Moelbrighde (Archdall) |
| unknown | 870 | Mureadach | Son of M'Saergusa (Archdall) |
See also
References
- 'Monasticum Hibernicum; or, an history of the abbeys, priories, and other religious houses in Ireland' Archdall, Mervyn (Dublin: printed for Luke White, 1786)
- Cogan, Anthony (1862). The diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. Vol. 1. Dublin: J.F. Fowler.
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p149 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- Brady, William Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2. pp. 127–128.
- Fryde, E.B.; Greenway, D.E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology. pp. 430, 432–433.
- Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X.; Byrne, F.J. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists. p. 362.