Thomas Otway (bishop)

The Rt Rev. Thomas Otway, DD (b Wiltshire 1615 – d Kilkenny 1692) was a Seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Otway was consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 29 January 1671.[2] He was Ttranslated to Ossory on 7 February 1680.[3] From 1680 until 1691 he was also Archdeacon of Armagh in commendam.[4] He died on 6 March 1692.[5]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 345. ISBN 0-521-56350-X
  2. ↑ Cotton, Henry (1850). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 4, The Province of Connaught. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 67–78.
  3. ↑ 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 XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 316–318, ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  4. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p46 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
  5. ↑ “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 1” Cotton,H 282: Dublin, Hodges, 1848
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Thomas Bayly		 Bishop of Killala and Achonry
1671–1680		 Succeeded by
John Smith
Preceded by
Michael Ward		 Archdeacon of Armagh
1680–1691		 Succeeded by
Edmund Arwaker
Bishop of Ossory
1680–1693		 Succeeded by
John Hartstonge



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