Robert Mossom (1617 – 1679) was

Bishop of Derry The Bishop of Derry is an Episcopal polity, episcopal title which takes its name after the monastic settlement originally founded at Daire Calgach and later known as Daire Colm Cille, Anglicised as Derry. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a ...

from 1666 to 1679.

Life

He was a native of

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. He entered

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, on 2 June 1631, but two months later migrated to

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, where he was admitted a sizar on 9 Aug., and where he was a fellow student with Richard Crashaw and Joseph Beaumont, afterwards master of the college. and ordained in 1642. He graduated B.A. in 1634 and M.A. in 1638. In 1642 he was officiating at York as an army chaplain under Sir Thomas Glemham, and about this time he married a Miss Eland of Bedale. A committed

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, after many years as a

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he became the

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in 1660. Subsequently, for at least five years (1650–5), during the interregnum, he publicly preached at St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf, London, where, notwithstanding the prohibition of the law, he used the Book of Common Prayer, and administered the holy communion monthly. This brought a great concourse of nobility and gentry to the church. After he had been silenced, Mossom maintained himself by keeping a school. After that he was

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until his elevation to the

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. He died at

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on 21 December 1679: his grandson, Robert Mossom was

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Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

and

Dean of Ossory The Dean of Ossory or Dean of Kilkenny is based at The Cathedral Church of St Canice, Kilkenny in the united Diocese of Cashel and Ossory within the Church of Ireland. The current Dean is the Very Reverend Stephen Farrell, formerly Rector of Zio ...

from 1703 until 1747.“Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 1” Cotton,H p47/48:

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, Hodges, 1848

Works

The preachers tripartite in three books. The first to raise devotion in divine meditations upon Psalm XXV : the second to administer comfort by conference with the soul, in particular cases of conscience : the third to establish truth and peace, in several sermons against the present heresies and schisms

Notes

;Attribution 1617 births Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Anglican bishops of Derry 1679 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub