John Bird (died 1558) was an English Carmelite friar and subsequently a bishop.
He was Warden of the Carmelite house in Coventry, and twice Provincial of his order. [2] [3] He attracted the attention of Henry VIII by his preaching in favour of the royal supremacy over the English Church. [4]
He was one of the divines sent in 1531 to confer and argue with Thomas Bilney, the reformer, in prison; and in 1535 he was sent by Henry VIII along with Richard Foxe, the royal almoner, and Thomas Bedyll, a clerk of the council, to Catherine of Aragon, now divorced by Henry, to try to persuade her not to use the title queen. [5]
He was suffragan to the Bishop of Llandaff (titled Bishop of Penrydd (then spelled Penreth), after Penrydd in Pembrokeshire [6] and was then translated to become Bishop of Bangor. He then was appointed as the inaugural Bishop of Chester. The new diocese had both administrative and financial problems: Bird tried to address the finances, and dispensed with archdeacons, but succeeded only in making disadvantageous agreements with the Crown and with leaseholders. [7]
After the accession of the Catholic Queen Mary he was deprived of his bishopric on 16 March 1554 since he had married. [8] He at once repudiated his wife, and soon afterwards Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, appointed him as his suffragan, and on 6 November 1554 presented him to the vicarage of Great Dunmow in Essex. [9]
Near the end of 1558, he died in an obscure condition and was buried in Chester Cathedral. [5]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Bird, John (d.1558)". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cooper, Thompson (1886). "Bird, John (d.1558)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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