Matthew Sanders was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the sixteenth century.[1]

He was promoted Bishop of Leighlin by Pope Clement VII on 11 April 1527.[2] He swore the oath of supremacy at Clonmel early in 1539;[3] and died on 23 (or 24) December 1549. He was buried at St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin

References

  1. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 364, 400 and 437. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
    - Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 383–387.
  2. ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p387 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  3. ↑ Bagwell, Richard (1885–90). Ireland Under the Tudors. Vol. 1. p. 305.


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