Abraham (Bishop of St Davids)

The Abraham Stone

Abraham (died 1080) was Bishop of St David's and the Cathedral Close in Pembrokeshire, Wales from 1078, when he succeeded Sulien, until his murder in 1078^[1] or 1080, during a Viking invasion.^[2][3][4][a] Sulien then served again as bishop.^[3]

His two sons, Isaac and Hedd, are commemorated on a c. early-twelfth-century stone cross discovered in 1891 in St David's Cathedral. The Abraham Stone now resides in the Tower Gate House and Bell Tower of the original cathedral city.^[8][2]

Notes

1. St David's Cathedral states that Abraham was bishop from 1076 to 1078.^[5][6][7] His year of death as given by the cathedral as 1078^[6] and 1080.^[8][9]

References

1. Jones, William Basil and Freeman, Edward Augustus. The History and Antiquities of Saint David's, J. H. & J. Parker; J. R. Smith, and J. Petheram, 1856, p. 268
2. "Abraham (Bishop of St David's)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
3. J. Wyn Evans; Jonathan M. Wooding (2007). St David of Wales: Cult, Church and Nation. Boydell Press. pp. 33, 84, 300. ISBN 978-1-84383-322-2.
4. Paul Dalton; Charles Insley; Louise J. Wilkinson (2011). Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World. Boydell Press. pp. 99, 110. ISBN 978-1-84383-620-9.
5. "Past & Present Bishops & Deans". St David's Cathedral. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
6. Archaeologia Cambrensis. W. Pickering. 1892. p. 78.
7. Philip Appleby Robson (1901). The Cathedral Church of Saint David's: a short history and description of the fabric and episcopal buildings. G. Bell. pp. 79, 93.
8. "Tower Gate House and Bell Tower". St David's Cathedral. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
9. "A Brief History Of The Cathedral". St David's Cathedral. Retrieved 4 August 2017.