bishop of Cornwall

{{Short description|Episcopal title}}

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The Bishop of Cornwall was the bishop of a diocese which existed between about 930 and 1050. Nothing is known about bishops in the post-Roman British Kingdom of Cornwall, but by the mid-ninth century Wessex was gaining control over the area, and between 833 and 870 a bishop at Dinuurrin, probably Bodmin, acknowledged the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. There may have been another bishop at St Germans.{{cite book|first=Nicholas|last=Orme|title=The Saints of Cornwall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxIjiMStTKIC&q=dinuurrin&pg=PA8|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|pages= 8–9|isbn=9780191542893}} By the end of the century Cornwall was part of the diocese of Sherborne, and Asser may have been appointed the suffragan bishop of Devon and Cornwall around 890 before he became bishop of the whole diocese.{{cite encyclopedia|last= Keynes|first=Simon |title=Asser |page=51 |year=2014|orig-year=1st edition 1999|editor1-first= Michael|editor1-last= Lapidge|editor2-first= John|editor2-last= Blair|editor3-first= Simon|editor3-last= Keynes |editor4-first= Donald|editor4-last= Scragg |encyclopedia=The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England|edition=Second |publisher= Wiley Blackwell |location=Chichester, West Sussex |isbn=978-0-470-65632-7}} When he died in 909, Sherborne was divided into three dioceses, of which Devon and Cornwall were one. In Æthelstan's reign (924-939) there was a further division with the establishment of a separate Cornish diocese based at St Germans.{{cite book|authorlink=Frank Stenton|last=Stenton|first= Frank|year=1971|title=Anglo-Saxon England|publisher= Oxford University Press|edition=3rd|isbn=978-0-19-821716-9|page=439}} Later bishops of Cornwall were sometimes referred to as the bishops of St Germans. In 1050, the bishoprics of Crediton and of Cornwall were merged and the Episcopal see was transferred to Exeter.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}}.{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=215}}