Diocese_of_Duleek Knowpia

The Diocese of Duleek was an Irish diocese,^[1] firstly subsumed by the Diocese of Meath^[2] 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.^[3]

Bishops edit

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: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ '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.