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Finnian of Moville

Finnianus la

Irish missionary

Dated c. 495 CE – c. 589 CE
Recognised as Saint

Overview

Irish missionaryWikidata record description. Read Finnian of Movilla in the Wikipedia reader.

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Belonged to

Belonged to
Catholic Church
largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity a.k.a. western Christianity

Offices held 2

Dates unrecorded abbot Has references
Dates unrecorded apostle

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Studied under 1

Colmán of Dromore ↗

Finnian of Moville Irish missionary

Taught 1

Columba 6th‑century Gaelic Irish missionary monk, Christian saint, pioneer of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and “Apostle of the Picts”

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