John Bell (bishop of Mayo)

John Bell, O.S.A. ( d1541)[1] was a bishop in the late fifteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth century. 12th century:[2]

He was appointed Bishop of Mayo in 1493,[3] but also worked as a Suffragan Bishop for the Archbishop of Canterbury.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia" Seán Duffy,S/ MacShamhráin,A/ Moynes, J: Abingdon, Routledge, 2005 ISBN 0415940524
  2. ↑ “A New History of Ireland” T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  3. ↑ Brady 1876, The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 2, pp. 127–128.
  4. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p150. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878


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