CORK, DIOCESE OF. – In Ireland, a suffragan of Cashel. The name derives from the Gaelic *corcach* (market).
The origins of the diocese date back to the first decades of the 7th century, when St. Fionnbarra founded a monastery and a school beside the market near the estuary of the river Laoi (English: Lee). This foundation gave rise to the city of Cork. St. Fionnbarra, the first bishop and patron of the diocese, had among his successors...
After nearly two years of labor, vigils, and all manner of anxieties (even from other communities founded earlier), Paul judged the Church of Corinth sufficiently formed to allow him to depart temporarily. There remained, however, serious remnants of ancient vices with abuses and disturbances, as we learn from the two canonical letters to the Corinthians (v. CORINTHIANS, EPISTLES TO THE) and the letter from Pope Clement addressed to the same community about forty years later.
ARCHAEOLOGY. – Eusebius recalls (Hist. eccl., IV, 23) Bishop Dionysius, who exercised his zeal also toward other communities through letters written to the Church of the Lacedaemonians, the Athenians, those of Nicomedia, of Gortyna, and the other churches of Crete, to the Church of Amastris and those of Pontus, and to the inhabitants of Cnossos. His is also the well-known letter to Pope Soter (166-75), in which he states that on Sundays the Church of Corinth was accustomed to read the first letter written to the Corinthians by Pope Clement. Bishop Perigenes of Corinth was present at the Third Council of Ephesus (431); Bishop Peter at the Fourth Council of Chalcedon.
The martyrs of Corinth, Leonidas and companions, appear not only in the Syriac and Hieronymian Martyrologies but also in the liturgical tradition of the Greeks; all give the date of April 16 (H. Delehaye, *Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae*, Brussels 1902, p. 605).
Corinth – Plan of the Christian basilica (late 4th, early 5th century))