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Bernard (bishop of Carlisle)

medieval English Bishop of Carlisle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4892872 ↗
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Bernard (died 1214) was a medieval English Bishop of Carlisle.

Bernard was the custodian of vacant see of Carlisle from about 1200. He was translated from the bishopric of Ragusa to the bishopric of Carlisle on 15 May 1203 by Pope Innocent III. He died about 8 July 1214.

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“Bernard (bishop of Carlisle)” enters the record as medieval English Bishop of Carlisle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bernard, bishop and Carlisle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1214, 1200, 1203—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bernard, bishop and Carlisle.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bernard (bishop of Carlisle)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.