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

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  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.