Legatenkonzil; 1152 (März)
Summoned by Cardinal John Paparo, the papal legate (legatus a latere) sent to Ireland following the death of Malachy, archbishop of Armagh, with a commission to reorder the Irish dioceses. It was presided over by Christian, the bishop of Lismore, who was the resident papal legate (legatus natus). The synod created four provinces (Armagh, Cashel, Dublin and Tuam) and thirty dioceses, an arrangement that proved to be too ambitious for the limited resources of the Irish church. A few of the dioceses thus created never came into being and several Irish bishops were later forced to work as suffragans in England because their revenues were inadequate, but in spite of these difficulties, the pattern established by this synod has remained in place ever since, with only minor changes in the following centuries.
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QQ:Ware, Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium et Tuamensium Vitae, 3-4; Keating, The History of Ireland, III 314-316; Records of Convocation, ed. Bray, Vol. 16 (Ireland 1101-1690), 85-87 (with a list of dioceses, 86-87).
Lit.: Watt, The Church in Medieval Ireland, 24-26; DizCon II (1964) 198 (G. D. Gordini) → Irlanda, 1152; ibid. 213-214 (F. Caraffa) → Kena (apud Kenanam).
Gerald L. Bray
Juni 2024
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Bray, Gerald Lewis, “Mell(ifontis) / Kells-Mellifont; Legatenkonzil; 1152 (März)" in: Lexikon der Konzilien [Online-Version], Juni 2024;
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