John Lynch (bishop of Elphin) explained

John Fitzjames Lynch was an Irish Anglican bishop at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth.^[1]

Lynch was born in Galway^[2] and educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford. He was Rector of Littleton-upon-Severn in 1561; and Canon of Wells in 1564. He was Bishop of Elphin^[3] from 1583 until his resignation on 19 August 1611, following his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith.^{[4] [5]}

He had greatly impoverished his see by selling off property, but his successor as bishop, Edward King, restored it to its former prosperity.

Lynch is mentioned in the Annals of Loch Cé (written by Catholic clergy) for 1588:The midwinter snowfall was more likely a symptom of the ongoing Little Ice Age.^[6]

Notes and References

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2. Book: Moody . T. W. . Martin . F. X. . Byrne . F. J. . Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II . 1984 . Oxford University Press . A New History of Ireland . IX . Oxford . 0-19-821745-5 .
3. "A Viceroy's Vindication?: Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir of Service in Ireland" Brady, C. (Ed) p125: Cork, Cork University Press, 2002
4. "Annals of Ireland, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military" Graham, J. p97: Longon; G.Sidney; 1819
5. Book: Cotton, Henry . Henry Cotton (divine)

   . Henry Cotton (divine) . The Province of Connaught . Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland . 4 . 1850 . Hodges and Smith . Dublin .

6. Book: Meigs, Samantha A. . Reformations in Ireland: Tradition and Confessionalism, 1400–1690 . 1997 . Springer . Google Books . 978-1-349-25710-2 .