Gilla Patráic also known as Patricius, was the second Bishop of Dublin

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. Gilla Patráic was elevated to the see of Dublin following bishop Dúnán

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s death in 1074, He was consecrated by Lanfranc

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, Archbishop of Canterbury

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. Whether Gilla Patráic or Dúnán was the first Irish bishop to be consecrated in Canterbury is disputed.

Before he became bishop of Dublin Gilla Patráic had been a monk

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 in a Benedictine

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 community at Worcester

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, the prior then had been Wulfstan, later Bishop of Worcester

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