Dúnán

Dúnán (died 6 May 1074) was the first bishop of Dublin, appointed under Dublin's Hiberno-Norse kings. He is known also as Donatus or Donat. The diocese was put on a regular basis, in 1028, at the request of Sigtrygg Silkbeard. In his obit in the Annals of Ulster Dúnán is described as "chief bishop of the foreigners" (ardespoc Gall).^[1]

It has been traditionally said that Dúnán was consecrated by Æthelnoth, the Archbishop of Canterbury.^[2][3][4] This is now disputed, with scholars saying that his successor, Gilla Patráic, was the first to be consecrated in this way.^[5]

References

1. ^ Annals of Ulster AD 431–1201, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, 2003, http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/index.html, retrieved 2010-03-19 : AU 1074.1
2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
3. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984), Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II, New History of Ireland: Volume XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 309–311, ISBN 0198217455 
4. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Dublin
5. ^ M. Philpott, Some Interactions between the English and Irish Churches, in Christopher Harper-Bill (editor), Proceedings of the Battle Conference in Dublin, 1997, p. 192, Anglo-Norman Studies XX (1998).

• Concise Dictionary of National Biography, under Dunan

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Name	Dunan
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Date of death	6 May 1074
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