Richard Underwood was a 17th-century
Anglican
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priest
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in
Ireland
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.
Underwood was
Precentor
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of
Ferns
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and
Dean of Lismore
The Dean of Lismore is based at The Cathedral Church of St Carthage, Lismore in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland.
The current incumbent is Paul Draper.
List of deans of Lismore
*?–1549 James Butler
*156 ...
from 1661 until his death in 1664.
["Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp168: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878]
References
17th-century Irish Anglican priests
Deans of Lismore
1664 deaths
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