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Colmán of Orkney
bishop in the Orkney Islands
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 6 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
In the Orkney Islands off Scotland, Saint Colmán, bishop.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 6 June as a bishop in the Orkney Islands off Scotland.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 6 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q136113161 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.