Henry Man (bishop) explained

Type:	bishop
Henry Man
Bishop of Sodor and Man
Diocese:	Diocese of Sodor and Man
Term:	1546–1555/6
Other Post:	Prior of Witham (1534–35) Prior of Sheen (1535–39) Dean of Chester (1541–47)
Consecration:	14 February 1546
Buried:	St Andrew Undershaft, London
Nationality:	English
Religion:	Catholic / Anglican

Henry Man (died 19 October 1556) was an English clergyman who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the 16th century.

Until the English Reformation he was a Carthusian monk who had been appointed the Prior of Witham, Somerset (1534–35)^[1] and then the Prior of Sheen, Surrey (1535–39).^[2] Following the dissolution of the monasteries, he was briefly a chaplain to King Henry VIII. He was appointed the Dean of Chester in 1541,^{[3] [4]} also holding the rectories of St Mary on the Hill, Chester and Fyningley, Nottinghamshire.^[5]

He was nominated Bishop of Sodor and Man in January 1546 and consecrated at Old St Paul's Cathedral on 14 February 1546 by bishops Bonner, Chetham and Hodgkins.^{[6] [7]} He continued to hold the deanery of Chester in commendam for another year before resigning the post by 31 May 1547.^{[3] [4]} After the accession of Queen Mary I, he was deprived of the see and his predecessor Thomas Stanley was restored in 1555 or 1556.^{[8] [9]}

Henry died on 19 October 1556 and was buried at St Andrew Undershaft, London.^{[6] [7] [10]} He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

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Notes and References

1. Book: Page . William . 1911 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40929 . The Priory of Witham . A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 . . 123–128.
2. Book: Malden . H. E. . 1967 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37816 . The Priory of Witham . A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2 . . 89–94.
3. Book: Horn . J. M. . Smith . D. M. . Mussett . P. . 2004 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35845 . Deans of Chester . Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses . . 42–45.
4. Book: C. R. . Elrington . B. E. . Harris . A. P. . Baggs . Ann J. . Kettle . S. J. . Lander . A. T. . Thacker . David . Wardle . 1980 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39991. Chester Cathedral . A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3 . . 188–195.
5. Book: Gairdner . James . Brodie . R. H. . 1908 . Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 21 Part 1: January–August 1546 . . 53–78.
6. Book: Horn . J. M. . Smith . D. M. . Mussett . P. . 2004 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35885 . Bishops of Sodor and Man . Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses . . 141–146.
7. Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 273.
8. Book: Brady, W. Maziere . William Maziere Brady . The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . 1876 . Tipografia Della Pace . Rome . 1 . 107–109.
9. Book: Harrison . William . 1879 . http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol29/p053.htm . Bishops of Sodor and Man . An Account of the Diocese of Sodor and Man . . Douglas, Isle of Man . 53–70.
10. Book: Nichols . J. G. . John Gough Nichols . 1848 . http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45537 . Notes to the diary – 1556 . The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550–1563) . . 116.