The Bishop of was head of an historic
Irish diocese, firstly subsumed by the
Diocese of Meath and now within the
Diocese of Meath and Kildare
The United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare is a diocese in the Church of Ireland located in the Republic of Ireland. The diocese is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Alone of English and Irish bishops who are not also archbishops, the Bis ...
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Its hub was the settlement of
Fore, County Westmeath
Fore () is a village, next to the old Benedictine Abbey ruin of Fore Abbey, situated to the north of Lough Lene in County Westmeath, in Ireland.
The village, (sister parish of nearby St. Mary's Collinstown) is situated within a valley between ...
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Bishops
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
Senior clergy
The only recorded officer of the diocese below that of bishop is
Cormac O'Ruadrach
Cormac Ua Ruadhrachh (d 1053) was an Irish priest in the eleventh century: the only recorded Archdeacon of Fore.
His death is listed in the Annals of the Four Masters. and died/ref>
References
Archdeacons in Ireland
11th-century I ...
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["Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society" p29: Dundalk, W.Tempest, 1904]
See also
References
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External links
Google Books
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Religion in County Westmeath
Bishops of Fore