 His years at Glasgow left a mark on history that can be compared favourably with any previous or future bishop . Jocelin commissioned his namesake Jocelin of Furness , the same man who had written the Life of St. Waltheof , to write a Life of St. Kentigern , a task all the more necessary because , after 1159 , the Papacy claimed the right to <unk> saints . Kentigern , or Mungo as he is popularly known , was the saint traditionally associated with the see of Glasgow , and his status therefore reflected on Glasgow as a church and cult @-@ centre . There had already been a cathedral at Glasgow before Jocelin 's episcopate . The idea that the ecclesiastical establishment before Jocelin was simply a small church with a larger Gaelic or British monastic establishment has been discredited by scholars . Jocelin did , though , expand the cathedral significantly . As the Chronicle of Melrose reports for 1181 , Jocelin " gloriously enlarged the church of St Kentigern " . However , more work was created for the builders when , sometime between the years 1189 and 1195 , there was a fire at the cathedral . Jocelin thus had to commission another rebuilding effort . The new cathedral was dedicated , according to the Chronicle of Melrose , on 6 July 1197 . It was built in the Romanesque manner , and although little survives of it today , it is thought to have been influenced by the cathedral of Lund , the archbishop of which had consecrated Jocelin as bishop . 
