Suibne moccu Fir Thrí ''Suibne moccu Urthrí, Suibhne Iwas the sixth

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fem ...

Iona Iona (; gd, Ì Chaluim Chille (IPA: �iːˈxaɫ̪ɯimˈçiʎə, sometimes simply ''Ì''; sco, Iona) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though there ...

(652–657). His abbacy is obscure, and he appears not to have been from the same kindred,

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, as

Columba Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...

and most other early Ionan abbots. His abbacy saw a continuation of the evangelization of England and spread of Gaelic churchmen there, with

Diuma __NOTOC__ Diuma (or Dwyna or Duma) was the first Bishop of Mercia in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, during the Early Middle Ages. All that is known of Diuma's life is contained in a short account in Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History of the Eng ...

becoming the first

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in 656. He died on 11 January 657.

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* Sharpe, Richard, ''Adomnán of Iona: Life of St. Columba'', (London, 1995) 657 deaths Abbots of Iona 7th-century Irish abbots Irish expatriates in Scotland Year of birth unknown {{christian-clergy-stub

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