Whithorn

Then he felt impelled to convert his own people, so he sailed from France and landed at the island of Whithorn, which is now an excursion place from Newton-Stewart.

The Heather-Moon 1889

It's worth noting that Bede calls St Ninian mid-5th century, if he wasn't legendary "Bishop Ninian" and says his episcopal see was at Whithorn in Galloway.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

If Whithorn was part of Rheged, that would be consistent with the suggestion that Rheged became absorbed into Northumbria, perhaps after Oswy's marriage to Rhianmellt in the 630s, if ecclesiastical power transferred along with political power.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

If we accept that Whithorn in Galloway was really founded by St/Bishop Ninian in 450-ish that's five.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

I wonder if he might have had connections with Whithorn in Galloway, as well as Carlisle.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

Bede knew Whithorn as the seat of an early and important bishopric, and it may be a significant straw in the wind that Whithorn came under the Archbishop of York's authority until some time in the medieval period Wars of Scottish Independence?

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

This might be Bede using the wrong terminology, erroneously assuming that because Whithorn was a bishopric in his own time it must have been a bishopric when founded, and calling Ninian a Bishop when he was nothing of the kind.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

Carlisle's the traditional centre of Rheged not that we have any real evidence of Rheged's location, but for a seafaring culture it's not hard to cross Morecambe Bay to Whithorn.

A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

In the following year obtained the Priory of Whithorn in Galloway; and was intrusted with the education of James the Fifth.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Wigtown, about three miles south from Whithorn, or on the spot where the monastery afterwards arose.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story