John Bird (bishop)

John Bird (bishop)

John Bird was a Tudor Bishop who was Suffragan to the Bishop of Llandaff who was then Translated to Bangor before becoming the inaugural Bishop of Chester, aposition he surrendered on his marriage.

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Richard Copsey, ‘Bird, John (d. 1558)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2447, accessed 12 Aug 2008]

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