Rabinatus (or Rabinato) was the bishop of Mondoñedo from 1172Richard A. Fletcher, The Episcopate in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth Century (Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 61, 64. or 1174 until 1199.Enrique Cal Pardo, Episcopologio Mindoniense (Editorial CSIC, 2003), pp. 107–111. He was a chancery official during the reign of Alfonso VII and perhaps under Ferdinand II as well. He is recorded as a deacon in a document he drew up for Alfonso on 6 November 1156. He was an archdeacon in the diocese of Mondoñedo before his elevation as bishop. He was bishop when the see was moved from Villamayor de Brea to Ribadeo in 1182. In 1190, he made a donation to support the struggling monastery of Xuvia.Francesco Renzi, "Cluny in Medieval Galicia: The “damnatio memoriae” and the Survival of the Monastery of San Martín de Xuvia (10th–13th Centuries)", Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 21 (2016): 249–269. In 1191, he attended the wedding of Alfonso IX and Theresa of Portugal. He died on 10 July 1199.
The name Rabinatus (or Rapinatus) is well attested in Galicia and among the Mozarabs.Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo, Antroponimia medieval galega (ss. VIII–XII) (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999), p. 387.Lidia Becker, Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009), p. 902. Its meaning as a name is unclear. It may have a religious meaning of 'one caught up (in the spirit)' ("que foi arrebatado pola fe").
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