John Bell (bishop of Mayo)

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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]

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  4. Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti ecclesiae hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. Vol. 3: The province of Ulster. London: Hodges and Smith. p. 150.