Michael Hugh Gunton Mayes (born 31 August 1941) was Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1993 to 2000 and then of Limerick and Killaloe until 2008.[1]
Mayes was educated at The Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was ordained in 1964 and his first post was as a curate in Portadown[3] after which he spent six years as an USPG missionary in Japan.[4] He then held incumbencies in Cork and was later Archdeacon of the area before his ordination to the episcopate.