Consecrated in 1151; resigned circa 1179; died 1186; first Abbot of Mellifont; he is said to have been the first papal legate in Ireland; also known as Christianus
Elected circa 1202 and consecrated before 5 November 1203; died before 1216
1216
1218
Thomas
Elected and consecrated before June 1216; died before December 1218
1218
1223
Robert of Bedford
Formerly Bishop-elect of Glendalough; elected Bishop of Lismore before 13 December 1218 and received possession of the temporalities on that date; consecrated before 17 April 1219; died before November 1223
1228
1246
Griffin Christopher
Elected before 6 November 1223 and received possession of the temporalities on that date; received the temporalities again from the king on 8 July 1225 and again 11 July 1227; consecrated before 25 April 1228; resigned sometime between 17 July and 8 August 1246; died after 22 August 1252
Translated from Cloyne after 26 October 1246, but did receive possession of the see's temporalities until 25 May 1248; died before 27 April 1253; also known as Alan O'Sullivan
1253
1270
Thomas
Elected before 25 July 1253; received possession of the temporalities after 27 July 1253; consecrated after 15 October 1253; died before 2 July 1270
1270
1279
John Roche
Elected before 20 August 1270 and received possession of the temporalities after that date; died 11 June 1279; also known as John de Rupe
1280
1308
Richard Corre
Elected 19 July and consecrated after 24 October 1279; received possession of the temporalities 11 November 1279; died in October 1308
1309
1321
William Fleming
Elected after 24 November 1308; died in November 1321; also known as William le Fleming
1321
1354
John Leynagh
Elected after 13 December 1321 and consecrated 17 April 1323; died in December 1354; also known as John Launaught
1354
1358
See vacant
During this vacancy, King Edward III ordered the temporalities of Lismore to be delivered to Roger Cradock, Bishop of Waterford, however, this was not done.
^ abFryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 366–367. ISBN0-521-56350-X.
^ abMoody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland: Volume XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 303–304. ISBN0-19-821745-5.
^ abCotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 1, The Province of Munster (2nd Edition, corrected and enlarged ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 159–163.