Bishop of Clonmacnoise

{{Short description|Catholic ecclesial title in Ireland}} {{Use British English|date=October 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} '''Bishop of Clonmacnoise''' was the [[Ordinary (Catholic Church)|ordinary]] of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[episcopal see]] based at [[Clonmacnoise]], [[County Offaly]], Ireland. The bishops of Clonmacnoise ({{langx|sga|Cluain Moccu Nóis}}) appear in the records for the first time in the 9th century, although inferior in status to the [[Abbot of Clonmacnoise]] until the reformation of the Irish Church in the 12th century. After the [[Reformation in Ireland|Reformation]], there were several parallel bishops placed by the [[Church of Ireland]]{{Citation needed|date=November 2023|reason=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiae03cottuoft/page/n155/mode/2up Cotton, Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland, volume 3, page 142] mentions only Florence Gerawan/Kirwan as having been appointed by the Crown}} until the Diocese of Clonmacnoise was merged with Diocese of Meath to form the [[Diocese of Meath and Kildare]] in 1569. In the Roman Catholic Church, separate bishops continued longer. The diocese came under the administration of the [[Bishop of Ardagh]] between 1688 and 1725, before the provision of Stephen MacEgan in 1725. Although MacEgan was translated to Meath in 1729, he continued to administer Clonmacnoise separately until his death in 1756, after which the see was finally merged into the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]].

==List of abbots of Clonmacnoise== {{main|Abbot of Clonmacnoise}}

==List of bishops of Clonmacnoise== {| class="wikitable" style="width:90%" |- align=left ! width="20%"|Tenure ! width="30%"|Incumbent ! width="40%"|Notes |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 713||'''Fáilbe Bec'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 889||'''Tuathchar'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 890||'''Máel Odar'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 904||'''Cairpre Cromm'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 919||'''Loingsech'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 922||'''Fer Dálach'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 942||'''Dúnchad mac Suthainén'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 949||'''Óenucán mac Écertaig'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 955||'''Dúnadach mac Écertaig'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 971||'''Tuathal'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 971||'''Máenach mac Máel Míchil'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 979||'''Flann mac Máel Míchil'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 998||'''Conaing ua Coscraig'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 1001||'''Máel Póil'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 1010||'''Conaing mac Áedacáin'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 1037||'''Flaithbertach mac Loingsig'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 1067||'''Célechair Mugdornach mac Cuinn na mBocht'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 1104||'''Gilla Críst Ua hEchtigirn'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |d. 1105||'''Muiredach Ua Máel Dúin'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |c. 1111–1136||'''Domnall mac Flannacáin Ua Dubthaig'''||Abbot of Roscommon and Bishop of Elphin. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |x1152–1187||'''[[Muirchertach Ua Máel Uidir]]'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |?–1207||'''Cathal Ua Máel Eóin'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1207–1214||'''Muiredach Ua Muirecén'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1214–1220||'''Áed Ua Máel Eóin (I)'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1220–1227||'''Máel Ruanaid Ua Modáin'''||Resigned in 1227; died 1230. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1227–1236||'''Áed Ua Máel Eóin (II)'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1236–c. 1252||'''Thomas Fitz Patrick'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1252–1278||'''Tomás Ua Cuinn'''||[[Order of Friars Minor|O. F. M.]] |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1280–1289||'''Anonymous'''||O. F. M.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |elected 1282||'''''Gilbert'''''||Blinded, and never consecrated. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1290–1297||'''Uilliam Ua Dubthaig'''||O. F. M.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1298–1302||'''Uilliam Ua Finnéin'''||[[O. Cist.]] |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1302–?||'''Domhnall Ua Bráein'''||O. F. M.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |?–1337||'''Lughaidh Ua Dálaigh'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1337–x1368||'''Henry'''||[[O. P.]] |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |provided 1349||'''''Simon'''''||O. P.; provided 11 May 1349; election did not take effect. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1369–1371||'''Richard Braybroke'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1371–1380x||'''Hugh'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |?–1388||'''Philip Ó Maoil'''||Resigned 30 January 1388; died 1420. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1388–1397||'''Milo Corr'''||O. F. M.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1397–1423||'''Philip Nangle'''||O. Cist.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |provided 1423||'''''David Prendergast'''''||O. Cist.; provided on 24 September 1423, but the provision did not take effect. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1425–1444||'''Cormac Mac Cochláin'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1444–1487||'''Seaán Ó Dálaigh'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1449||'''''Thomas'''''||On 27 October 1449 [[Pope Nicholas V]] allowed Bishop Thomas to hold this see ''[[in commendam]]''; nothing more is known. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |provided 1458||'''William'''||[[O. S. A.]]; provided on 14 July 1458. Not known to have held the see physically, but acted as a suffragan in the [[diocese of Durham]] . |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1480–1486||'''James'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1487–1508||'''Walter Blake'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |c. 1509–1514||'''[[Tomás Ó Maolalaidh]]'''||O. F. M.; translated to the [[Archbishop of Tuam|archbishopric of Tuam]]. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1516–1539||'''Quintin Ó hUiginn'''||O. F. M.; also write Quintin O'Higgins |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1539||'''Richard Hogan'''||O. F. M.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1539–c. 1555||'''Florence Kirwan'''||O. F. M.. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1556–1568||'''Peter Wall'''||O. F. M..; for later Bishops of the Church of Ireland see [[Bishop of Meath]] |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1585–?||'''Alan Sullivan'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |From 1630||'''''Terence Coghlan'''''||[[Vicar Apostolic]] only. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1647–1657||'''[[Anthony MacGeoghegan]]'''||O. F. M.; translated to the [[Bishop of Meath|bishopric of Meath]]. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |From 1657||'''''William O'Shiel'''''||Vicar Apostolic only. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |From 1683||'''''Moriarty Kearney'''''||Vicar Apostolic only. |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1688–c. 1698||'''Gregory Fallon'''|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1725–1729/1756||'''Stephen MacEgan'''||O. P.; Although MacEgan was translated to Meath in 1729, he continued to administer Clonmacnoise separately until his death in 1756, after which the see was finally merged into the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise]]. |}

==References== *{{citation | editor-last = Fryde | editor-first = E. B. | editor2-last = Greenway | editor2-first = D. E. | editor3-last = Porter | editor3-first = S. | editor4-last = Roy | editor4-first = I. | title = Handbook of British Chronology | date = 1986 | publisher = Offices of the Royal Historical Society | edition = 3rd | series = Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, No. 2 | location = London | isbn = 0-86193-106-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/handbookofbritis0000unse }} *{{citation | editor-last= Moody |editor-first= T. W. | editor2-last = Martin | editor2-first = F. X. | editor3-last = Byrne | editor3-first = F. J. | title= Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II |date= 1984 |publisher= Oxford University Press |series= New History of Ireland: Volume XI |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-821745-5 }} *Annette Kehnel, ''Clonmacnois the Church and Lands of St. Ciarán:Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th- to 16th Century)'', 1995, Transaction Publishers, Rutgers – State University, USA. {{ISBN|3-8258-3442-5}}.

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