Irisches Nationalkonzil (?); 1111
A national synod was supposedly held at Uisneach (County Meath) in this year, with the intention of establishing a diocesan system of church government in Ireland, similar to that which obtained elsewhere in western Europe. According to the annals of Loch Cé, the location was Fiad mac Aengusa which the chronicler identified with Uisneach, an ancient meeting place for religious ceremonies and the like, but most modern scholars identify it with Ráth Breasail instead, and it is possible that the two synods were one and the same. The synod of Uisneach was presided over by Cellach, the archbishop of Armagh, and it is claimed that there were fifty bishops, 300 priests and 3000 other religious persons in attendance, which is probably an exaggeration. It is also claimed that the synod was attended by Murtagh O’Brien, high king of Ireland at the time.
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QQ: The Annals of Loch Cé, ed. W. M. Hennessy, 2 vols., London 1871 [= Rolls Series 54], I 226-227; Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, ed./trans. J. Donovan, 7 vols., Dublin 1856, II 990-993; Records of Convocation, ed. Bray, Vol. 16 (Ireland 1101-1690), Woodbridge 2006, 84.
Lit.: J. Brady, The Origin and Growth of the Diocese of Meath, in: Irish Ecclesiastical Record 5th ser. 72 (1949) 1-13; A. Gwynn, The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Dublin 1992, 180-192.
Gerald Lewis Bray
Juni 2024
Empfohlene Zitierweise:
Bray, Gerald Lewis, “Uisneach, Irisches Nationalkonzil (?); 1111" in: Lexikon der Konzilien [Online-Version], Juni 2024; URL: http://www.konziliengeschichte.org/site/de/publikationen/lexikon/database/4293.html