Huan Hesketh Explained

Type:Bishop
Huan Hesketh
Bishop of Sodor and Man
Term:1513 – before 1523
Predecessor:Huan Blackleach
Successor:John Howden (bishop)
Religion:Roman Catholic
Appointed:15 April or 18 May 1513
Bishop Name:Huan Hesketh
Dipstyle:The Right Reverend
Offstyle:My Lord
Relstyle:Bishop

Huan Hesketh (or Hugh Hesketh) was a pre-Reformation clergyman who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the early 16th-century.[1] [2]

He was appointed the bishop of the Diocese of Sodor and Man by papal provision on 15 April[2] or 18 May 1513.[1] It is not known when his episcopate ended, but his successor John Howden was appointed in May or June 1523.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Eubel, Konrad . Konrad Eubel

    . Konrad Eubel . 1923 . Latin . Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi . 3 . Monasterii Sumptibus et typis librariae . 302.

  2. Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 273 . 0-521-56350-X.