:Ceneu
{{Short description|Welsh saint and bishop}}
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Saint Ceneu ({{langx|owl|Keneu}}) was an early bishop of Menevia (St Davids) in Wales in the sixth century. Giraldus Cambrensis, writing in the twelfth century, stated that Ceneu was the third bishop.{{Cite web |title=Ceneu from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia. |url=https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/C/ceneu.html |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online |language=en}}
He is said to have been the son of Corun ap CeredigSabine Baring-Gould, Sabine & al. The Lives of the British Saints, Vol. 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uE3pXSdZd5gC&pg=PA106 p. 106]. Kessinger Publishing, 2005. Accessed 26 Mar 2013. or Coel Hen. He established a church or monastic community (clas) at the site of the current settlement of Clydau in North Pembrokeshire which was long known as Llangeneu (Church of Ceneu) in his honour.James, Heather. "The Geography of the Cult of St Davids" in St David of Wales: Cult, Church and Nation, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LN9DSKZfItcC&pg=PA59 p. 59]. Boydell Press, 2007. Accessed 26 Mar 2013. No traces of the settlement are known to survive, and are thought to have been destroyed when there was significant immigration by Flemings settling into the area.
His feast day is 15 June.{{Cite web |title=C (Wales, Saints) |url=https://www.orthodoxwestinitiative.com/wales-2/c-wales-saints |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=www.orthodoxwestinitiative.com}}{{Cite book |last=Baring-Gould |first=S. (Sabine) |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa01bariuoft/livesofbritishsa01bariuoft/page/72/mode/2up?view=theater&q=ceneu |title=The lives of the British Saints : the Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have dedications i n Britain |date=1907–1911 |publisher=London : For the honourable Society of Cymmrodorion by C.J. Clark |others=PIMS - University of Toronto}}
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Category:Medieval Welsh saints
Category:History of Pembrokeshire
Category:Medieval Welsh clergy
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