John Bell (bishop of Mayo) explained

John Bell, O.S.A. (d1541)[1] was a bishop in the late fifteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth century.[2]

He was appointed Bishop of Mayo in 1493,[3] but also worked as a suffragan bishop for the Archbishop of Canterbury.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Seán . Duffy . Ailbhe . MacShamhráin . James . Moynes . Medieval Ireland : an encyclopedia . Routledge . 2005 . 0-203-50267-1 . 252813171 .
  2. Book: Moody . Theodore William . Byrne . Francis John . Martin . Francis Xavier . A new history of Ireland . Clarendon Press . Oxford, England . 1976 . 0-19-821745-5 . 60660189.
  3. Book: Brady, William Maziere . The episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland AD 1400 to 1875 . 2 . 1876 . 655156325 . 127–128.
  4. Book: Cotton, Henry . Fasti ecclesiae hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland . 3: The province of Ulster . 1849 . Hodges and Smith . London . 150.

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