Matthew Sanders

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Matthew Sanders was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the sixteenth century. [1]

He was promoted Bishop of Leighlin by Pope Clement VII on 11 April 1527. [2] He swore the oath of supremacy at Clonmel early in 1539; [3] and died on 23 (or 24) December 1549. He was buried at St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin

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    - Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 383–387.
  2. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p387 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  3. Bagwell, Richard (1885–90). Ireland Under the Tudors. Vol. 1. p. 305.