John Lynch (bishop of Elphin)

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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.

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References

  1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  2. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   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 ISBN   1859181805
  4. "Annals of Ireland, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military" Graham, J. p97: Longon; G.Sidney; 1819
  5. Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Elphin
1583–1611
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