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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
From 1074 until its promotion to the status of an archbishopric in 1152, Dublin acknowledged its subjection to Canterbury. Each of the five bishops whose pontificates cover this period was consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury after first rendering a profession of faith and an oath of obedience. The precise form of this oath evolved somewhat. The first of the series, that of Bishop Patrick to Lanfranc in 1074, ran as follows:
Whoever rules over others must not think it beneath him if he himself is subordinate to others; but rather let him humbly show to those who are appointed over him, in all things and for the love of God, that obedience which he wishes to receive from his own subjects. Wherefore I, Patrick, who have been chosen to rule Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, do hand to thee, my reverend father Lanfranc, primate of Britain [Britanniarum primas] and archbishop of the holy church of Canterbury, this charter of my profession; and I promise that I shall obey thee and thy successors in all things which pertain to the Christian religion.
This version was severely pruned when Lanfranc consecrated Donngus in 1085. The title Britanniarum primas was dropped.
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