George Wilde (bishop)
The Rt Rev. George Wilde, DD, MA (9 January 1610 - 29 December 1665) (1617 – 1679) was Bishop of Derry from 1661 to 1665. [1]
Wilde was born in London;educated at Merchant Taylors’ and St John's College, Oxford;[2] and ordained in 1636. He was Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, then Vicar of St Giles, Reading and Rector of Biddenden. A committed Royalist, after the Restoration Wilde was elevated to the Episcopate and consecrated at [St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]] on 27 January 1661. His funeral sermon was preached by Robert Mossom Bishop), his successor. [3]
Notes
- ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 345. ISBN 0-521-56350-X
- ↑ “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 3” Cotton,H p318: Dublin, Hodges, 1848
- ↑ Richard Bagwell, ‘Wild, George (1610–1665)’, rev. Jason Mc Elligott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 Sept 2014
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| Preceded by John Bramhall |
Bishop of Derry 1666–1669 |
Succeeded by Robert Mossom |
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