John Bell,
O.S.A. ( d1541) was a bishop in the late fifteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth century.
He was appointed
Bishop of Mayo
The Bishop of Mayo was an episcopal title which took its name after Mayo in Ireland. After the Reformation, the title was briefly used by the Church of Ireland until 1559 and by the Roman Catholic Church until 1631. With each denomination, the ...
in 1493, but also worked as a
suffragan bishop
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdiction ...
for the
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...
.
References
15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
Bishops of Mayo
1541 deaths
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