Thomas Otway (bishop)

The Rt Rev. Thomas Otway, DD (b Wiltshire 1615 – d Kilkenny 1692) was a Seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Otway was consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 29 January 1671.[2] He was Translated to Ossory on 7 February 1680;[3] and died in post on 6 March 1692.[4]

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. Cotton, Henry (1850). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 4, The Province of Connaught. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 67–78.
  3. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984), Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II, New History of Ireland: Volume XI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 316–318, ISBN 0-19-821745-5
  4. “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 1” Cotton,H 282: Dublin, Hodges, 1848
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Thomas Bayly
Bishop of Killala and Achonry
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Succeeded by
John Smith
Preceded by
Michael Ward
Bishop of Ossory
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Succeeded by
John Hartstonge


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