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Walter Lynch (bishop)

Walter Lynch (bishop)

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Walter Lynch (1595-1663[1] was an Irish prelate who served as Bishop of Clonfert in the seventeenth century.[2]

He arrived in Ireland in 1647; and was appointed on 11 March 1647 and consecrated on 9 April 1648. He left Ireland in 1648 and spent the rest of his life in Hungary. Lynch died on 14 July 1663.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Irish Madonna Hungary: Bishop Walter Lynch of Clonfert
  2. [2]
    Catholic Hierarchy
  3. [3]
    Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 p419 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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