Conan was a medieval

Bishop of Cornwall The Bishop of Cornwall was the bishop of a diocese which existed between about 930 and 1050. Nothing is known about bishops in the post-Roman British Kingdom of Cornwall, but by the mid-ninth century Wessex was gaining control over the area, and b ...

. Conan was nominated by King

Æthelstan Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ang, Æðelstān ; on, Aðalsteinn; ; – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first ...

.Barlow ''English Church 100-1066'' p. 211 He was consecrated between July 924 and 932. He died between 946 or 953 and November 955.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215 However, in the view of historian D. P. Kirby, it was almost certainly in 936 that Æthelstan "established Bishop Conan at St. Germans".Kirby 'Hywel Dda: Anglophil?' p. 4 note 19

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