Texts

Nomina episcoporum Hibernensium

  • Early Irish
  • prose, list
  • Irish hagiography
List of 292 Irish saints classified as bishops. It is associated in the manuscripts with two similar lists of saints who have been priests or deacons.
Author
Anonymous.
Language
  • Early Irish
Form
prose, list (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

saints of IrelandIreland and Irish history, Irish people, saints
saints of Ireland
id. 27585
bishopsclergy, office-holders
bishops
id. 25922

Sources

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[ed.] Ó Riain, Pádraig [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum sanctorum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1985.
133–136 (§ 704)
[ed.] Grosjean, Paul, “Nomina episcoporum Hibernensium incipiunt”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus III, London, 1931. 28–33.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2016, last updated: January 2024