Richard Barrett (bishop)

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Richard Barrett (bishop) (also recorded as Risdéard Bairéad)[1] was an Irish bishop in the first half of the Sixteenth Century.[2]

Barret was a canon of Killala.[3] He was appointed Bishop of Killala by Pope Julius II on 7 January 1513.[4] He died in office during 1545.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
  2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  3. ^ Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
  4. ^ "History of the Irish Hierarchy: With the Monasteries of Each County, Biographical Notices of the Irish Saints, prelates and Religious" Walsh T. p169: New York; D. Sadlier; 1854
  5. ^ Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 2. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.