John Lynch (bishop)

John Fitzjames Lynch was an Irish Anglican bishop at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth. [1]

Lynch was born in Galway[2] and educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford. He was Rector of Littleton-upon-Severn in 1561; and Canon of Wells in 1564. He was Bishop of Elphin[3] from 1583 until his resignation on 19 August 1611, following his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith.[4][5]

He had greatly impoverished his see by selling off property, but his successor as bishop, Edward King, restored its to its former prosperity.

References

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