Conan was a medieval
Bishop of Cornwall.
Conan was nominated by King
Æthelstan
Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ang, Æðelstān ; on, Aðalsteinn; ; – 27 October 939) was List of monarchs of Wessex, King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and List of English monarchs, King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. ...
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[Barlow ''English Church 100-1066'' p. 211] He was consecrated between July 924 and 932. He died between 946 or 953 and November 955.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215]
However, in the view of historian D. P. Kirby, it was almost certainly in 936 that Æthelstan "established Bishop Conan at St. Germans".
[Kirby 'Hywel Dda: Anglophil?' p. 4 note 19]
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Bishops of Cornwall
10th-century English bishops
10th-century deaths
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