The Bishop of Waterford was a medieval prelate, governing the

Diocese of Waterford {{Use Irish English, date=February 2020 The Diocese of Waterford was established in the year AD 1096. It was merged with the Diocese of Lismore on 16 June 1363 to form the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. The merged entity remained an independ ...

from its creation in the 11th century until it was absorbed into the new

Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore The Diocese of Waterford and Lismore (Irish: ''Deoise Phort Láirge agus Leasa Móire'' ) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Ireland. It is one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel (also known as Munster) and is subjec ...

in the 14th century. After the creation of four

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s for Ireland in the middle of the 12th century, Waterford fell under the

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. The beginnings of the bishopric of Waterford can be dated fairly securely. The Norse city of

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became a bishopric in 1096, when Anselm,

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consecrated Malchus (Máel Ísu Ua hAinmere) as its first bishop.

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had decreed on 31 June 1327 that the bishoprics of Waterford and Lismore were to be united upon the death of either living bishop, Nicholas Welifed of Waterford (died 1337) and John Leynagh of Lismore (died 1354). This did not occur until 1363 however, when Thomas le Reve, Leynagh's successor at Lismore, took over the temporalities of the bishopric of Waterford.

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