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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture To the best of my memory, there is a list of "suffragans" in the back of Eubel's Hierarchia vol. 3. I have run into a few such cases for Germany in the 15th century. Cologne had two between 1434 & 1452. One was titular bishop of a see in Armenia. Tom Izbicki Thomas Izbicki Research Services Librarian and Gifts-in-Kind Officer Eisenhower Library Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD 21218 (410)516-7173 fax (410)516-8399 >>> [log in to unmask] 06/05/06 7:44 AM >>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture It's a reasonable guess that your Irish bishop (he may well not have been an Irishman himself, just the receipient of an income or theowner of a title from a see there) was permanently employed by Lacy as his suffragan. The arrangement was very common and by the end of the middle ages many, perhaps even most English bishops had permanent suffragans. EG From memory by the c15 the bishop of Lincoln had two as well as a Vicar General - the suffragans oversaw 'routine' spiritual workand the VG 'routine' administrative. During the period in the late c15 when the see of Worcester was held by three successive Italians (none of whom, as far as I know, ever visited the see) Worcester was administered throughout by suffragans who would hvae held bishoprics elsewhere, with little discernible negative impact on the see itself. Forgive me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, or repeating others' material - I have a better- than-usual excuse, being currently in China within a few hundred yards from the North Korean border with a very slow connection and no ready source of information on medieval western religion!... apart from that in my head... ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html