Irisches Nationalkonzil; 1101
The first reforming synod of Cashel, probably summoned at the instigation of archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, who claimed jurisdiction over the Irish church but was in exile at the time and so unable to act personally. It is possible that Anselm had met some of the Irish bishops at another council held at Rouen in 1096 and persuaded them to convene their own synod, but there is no indication that either he or they intended to break the link with Canterbury and establish an independent Irish church organization. The president of the synod was probably Máel Ísu Ua hAinmere, the bishop of Waterford, whom Anselm had consecrated in 1096 and who could claim to be the only legitimately consecrated bishop readily available for the task. However, the only surviving record does not mention him. Instead, it mentions Máel Muire Ua Dúnáin, then bishop of Clonard (Meath), who was present in his capacity as the recently appointed papal legate, though it also mistakenly calls him an archbishop and ‘archpresbyter’ of the entire island of Ireland and ignores the fact that he had no links with Cashel. The synod passed eight canons that now survive only in an Irish-language version, which may be a translation of a lost Latin original. Five of them were concerned to diminish, and if possible eliminate, lay authority in the church. One prohibited the sale of church property by clerics, and the other two dealt with problems arising from the offer of sanctuary to murderers and to those who married within the prohibited degrees. All these provisions were in line with policies that Rome was pursuing elsewhere at the time, but how effective they were in Ireland is uncertain. A more lasting act of the synod was the grant of the rock of Cashel to the church by the king of Munster, who was also present. Ten years later Cashel would become the seat of a southern province established by the synod of Ráth Breasail, with Máel Ísu as its first archbishop.
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QQ: S. H. O’Grady – J. M. Magrath, Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh, Vol. 1-2, London 1929, I 174-175 (Irish text); II 185-186 (Engl. translation); Bray, Records of Convocation, Vol. 16 (Ireland 1101-1690), 79-81.
Lit.: A. Gwynn, The First Synod of Cashel, in: Id., The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, 155-179; Watt, The Church in Medieval Ireland, 7-10; DizCon I (1963) 268-269 (P. J. Corish); probably the same as “Irlanda, 1097” → DizCon II (1964) 198 (G. D. Gordini).
Gerald Lewis Bray
Juni 2024
Empfohlene Zitierweise:
Bray, Gerald L., “Cassiliense / Cashel; Irisches Nationalkonzil; 1101" in: Lexikon der Konzilien [Online-Version], Juni 2024;
URL: http://www.konziliengeschichte.org/site/de/publikationen/lexikon/database/1958.html
