Michael Ward (bishop)

The Rt Rev. Michael Ward, DD, MA was a Seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Ward was consecrated Bishop of Ossory on 24 November 1878. He was Translated to Derry on 22 January 1680;[2] and died in post on 3 October 1861.

His nephew was an Irish politician and judge.[3]

Notes

  1. 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
  2. “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 3” Cotton,H p318: Dublin, Hodges, 1848
  3. W. N. Osborough, ‘Ward, Michael (1683–1759)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 3 Sept 2014
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Benjamin Parry
Bishop of Ossory
16781680
Succeeded by
Thomas Otway
Preceded by
Robert Mossom
Bishop of Derry
16801681
Succeeded by
Ezekiel Hopkins