Bishop of Fore

The Bishop of was head of an historic Irish diocese,^[1] firstly subsumed by the Diocese of Meath^[2] and now within the Diocese of Meath and Kildare.

Its hub was the settlement of Fore, County Westmeath.^[3]

Bishops[edit]

Bishops of Fore
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
745	765	Suarlech	"Abbat and Bishop of Fore; died 27 March that year (Archdall ibid)
765	766	Ardgene
unknown	869	Gnia	"Abbat and Bishop" (Archdall)
unknown	882	Ailioll
unknown	887	Cormac	"also Coadjutor Bishop of Clonmacnoise" (Archdall)
unknown	927	Moel Poile
Sources: ^[4]^[5]^[6]

The only recorded officer of the diocese below that of bishop is Cormac O'Ruadrach.^[7]

^ 'Monasticum Hibernicum; or, an history of the abbeys, priories, and other religious houses in Ireland' Archdall,M. (Dublin: printed for Luke White, 1786)
^ Cogan, Anthony (1862). The diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. Vol. 1. Dublin: J.F. Fowler.
^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p149 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^ Brady 1876, The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2, pp. 127–128.
^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 430 and 432–433.
^ Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, Maps, Genealogies, Lists, p. 362.
^ "Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society" p29: Dundalk, W.Tempest, 1904

Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 3. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, Reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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. Vol. XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.