Cormac, Bishop of Dunkeld (fl. x1114-1131x) is the earliest recorded

Bishop of Dunkeld The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Cormac. However, the first k ...

in the 12th century, although he was not the first bishop of

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. It is possible, that he was the first bishop of Dunkeld distinct from the

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, but there is no evidence for this. He appears in two rather doubtful charters of King

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, in several charters of King

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and in the Gaelic ''notitiae ''on the ''

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'', rendering a

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of on or before the year 1114, to on or after the year 1131. The last source calls him "Cormac escob Dúno Callenn", Cormac bishop of Dunkeld". He seems to have been succeeded by Gregoir.

References

*Dowden, John, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912), p. 47-8 *Jackson, Kenneth H. (ed), ''The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer'' (The Osborn Bergin Memorial Lecture 1970), (Cambridge, 1972), p. 59 *Lawrie, Sir Archibald, ''Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153'', (Glasgow, 1905), p. 283

External links

Dauvit Broun's list of 12th century Scottish Bishops
{{Bishops of Dunkeld 12th-century deaths Medieval Gaels from Scotland People from Perth and Kinross 12th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops Year of birth unknown Bishops of Dunkeld (pre-Reformation)