Hugh Allen (bishop)
Hugh Allen was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the sixteenth century.[1]
An Englishman, he was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor on 21 November 1573;[2] and translated to ferns on 24 May 1582.[3] He died at Fethard in 1599.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 0713642556
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p203 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton,H. p335 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
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- 16th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland
- Bishops of Down and Connor
- Bishops of Ferns
- Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin
- 1572 deaths
- 16th-century Anglo-Irish people
- Irish Anglican bishop stubs