{{Short description|Welsh saint and bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox saint | name = Saint Ceneu | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | titles = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | venerated_in = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | major_shrine = | feast_day = | attributes = | patronage = Clydau | issues = | suppressed_date = | suppressed_by = | influences = | influenced = | tradition = | major_works = }}
'''Saint Ceneu''' ({{langx|owl|Keneu}}) was an early bishop of Menevia (St Davids) in Wales in the sixth century. Giraldus Cambrensis, writing in the twelfth century, stated that Ceneu was the third bishop.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ceneu from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia. |url=https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/C/ceneu.html |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online |language=en}}</ref>
He is said to have been the son of Corun ap Ceredig<ref>Sabine Baring-Gould, Sabine & al. ''The Lives of the British Saints'', Vol. 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uE3pXSdZd5gC&pg=PA106 p. 106]. Kessinger Publishing, 2005. Accessed 26 Mar 2013.</ref> or Coel Hen. He established a church or monastic community (''clas'') at the site of the current settlement of Clydau in North Pembrokeshire which was long known as Llangeneu (Church of Ceneu) in his honour.<ref>James, Heather. "The Geography of the Cult of St Davids" in ''St David of Wales: Cult, Church and Nation'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=LN9DSKZfItcC&pg=PA59 p. 59]. Boydell Press, 2007. Accessed 26 Mar 2013.</ref> No traces of the settlement are known to survive, and are thought to have been destroyed when there was significant immigration by Flemings settling into the area.<ref name=":0" />
His feast day is 15 June.<ref>{{Cite web |title=C (Wales, Saints) |url=https://www.orthodoxwestinitiative.com/wales-2/c-wales-saints |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=www.orthodoxwestinitiative.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Baring-Gould |first=S. (Sabine) |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa01bariuoft/livesofbritishsa01bariuoft/page/72/mode/2up?view=theater&q=ceneu |title=The lives of the British Saints : the Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have dedications i n Britain |date=1907–1911 |publisher=London : For the honourable Society of Cymmrodorion by C.J. Clark |others=PIMS - University of Toronto}}</ref>
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