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John Dongan (Donnegan, Donkan, Duncan ) (died 1413 x) was a medieval Manx prelate. After holding the position of Archdeacon of Down, he held three successive bishoprics, Mann and the Isles (Sodor), then the see of Derry and then, lastly, Down. He resigned his last bishopric in 1413, and died afterwards at an unrecorded date. He was the last bishop of the united diocese of Sodor, which split into the "Scottish" and "Irish" (Manx) parts because of the Western Schism.〔"Scottish" and "Irish" is how it is described in contemporary papal writs; Mann is Sodor ''in Hibernia'' and the Hebrides Sodor ''in Scotia''; see Dowden, ''Bishops'', p. 287, n. 2.〕 ==Bishop of Mann and the Isles== According to the ''Manx Chronicle'', he was a native Manxman.〔Munch & Goss, (''Chronica regum Manniae'', vol. i ).〕 Despite this, the earliest major ecclesiastical position he is recorded to have obtained was Irish: in 1368 Pope Urban V appointed him Archdeacon of Down.〔Christian, "John Dongan (d. in or after 1413)".〕 (Dongan was originally ''Donnagáin'' and found in the south Ulster/north Leinster area (). In the following years Dongan worked as a papal tax-collector and nuncio in Ireland.〔 This service in Ireland was further rewarded in 1374 when he was appointed Bishop of Mann and the Isles (Sodor), receiving consecration from Simon Langham, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina on either 25 or 26 November 1374.〔Christian, "John Dongan (d. in or after 1413)"; Dowden, ''Bishops'', p. 286; Watt & Murray, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', pp. 262—3.〕 He did not immediately make it back to the British Isles, because while returning from Avignon he was kidnapped.〔 After being imprisoned at Boulogne-sur-Mer, he was ransomed for 500 marks.〔Christian, "John Dongan (d. in or after 1413)"; Dowden, ''Bishops'', p. 286; Munch & Goss, (''Chronica regum Manniae'', vol. i ).〕 He is not known to have returned to the Isle of Man until 25 January 1377, when he is said to have celebrated his first mass at St Germanus' Cathedral, Peel.〔Christian, "John Dongan (d. in or after 1413)"; Dowden, ''Bishops'', p. 286.〕 Charter evidence confirming two Manx churches to Whithorn Priory, reveals that on 5 February he held a "general chapter", which may have involved a general investigation of church landholdings in the diocese in his role as papal nuncio and tax-collector for the diocese, two roles he had received in addition to the bishopric of Sodor in 1374.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Dongan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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