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.[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. Duffy, Seán; MacShamhráin, Ailbhe; Moynes, James (2005). Medieval Ireland : an encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0-203-50267-1. OCLC 252813171.
  2. Moody, Theodore William; Byrne, Francis John; Martin, Francis Xavier (1976). A new history of Ireland. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5. OCLC 60660189.
  3. Brady, William Maziere (1876). The episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland AD 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. pp. 127–128. OCLC 655156325.
  4. Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti ecclesiae hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. Vol. 3: The province of Ulster. London: Hodges and Smith. p. 150.


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