John Steere (bishop)

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John Steere was an Anglican bishop in Ireland during the first half of the Seventeenth century. [1]

Formerly Archdeacon of Emly he was consecrated on 26 August 1617 and remained there for five years. He was nominated to the See of Ardfert on 8 December 1621; and appointed with letters patent on 20 July 1622. [2] He died in May 1628. [3]

Notes

  1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-821745-5.
  2. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  3. Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith


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