Thomas Otway (bishop)

Irish Anglican bishop

Thomas Otway (1615 – 6 March 1692) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Otway was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Sedbergh School and later consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 29 January 1671.[2] He was translated to Ossory on 7 February 1680.[3] From 1680 until 1691 he was also Archdeacon of Armagh in commendam.[4] He attended the short-lived Patriot Parliament summoned by James II of England in 1689. He died on 6 March 1692 in Kilkenny.[5]

## References

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1. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge, England: 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 3" Cotton, H. p. 46\. Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878.
5. ^ “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
1671-1680  | Succeeded by

John Smith

Preceded by

Michael Ward

|  Archdeacon of Armagh
1680-1691  | Succeeded by

Edmund Arwaker

Bishop of Ossory
1680-1693  | Succeeded by

John Hartstonge

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Bishops of Killala and Achonry

* Archibald Hamilton
* Archibald Adair
* John Maxwell
* Henry Hall
* Thomas Bayly
* Thomas Otway
* John Smith
* William Smyth
* Richard Tennison
* William Lloyd
* Henry Downes
* Charles Cobbe
* Robert Howard
* Robert Clayton
* Mordecai Cary
* Richard Robinson
* Samuel Hutchinson
* William Pery
* William Preston
* John Law
* John Porter
* Joseph Stock
* James Verschoyle

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Bishops of Ossory

* Christopher Gaffney
* Nicholas Walsh
* John Horsfall
* Richard Deane
* Jonas Wheeler
* Griffith Williams
* John Parry
* Benjamin Parry
* Michael Ward
* Thomas Otway
* John Hartstonge
* Thomas Vesey
* Edward Tenison
* Charles Este
* Anthony Dopping
* Michael Cox
* Edward Maurice
* Richard Pococke
* Charles Dodgson
* William Newcome
* John Hotham
* William Beresford
* Thomas O'Beirne
* Hugh Hamilton
* John Kearney
* Robert Fowler
* merged to Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin

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Archdeacons of Armagh

High Medieval|

* Luke Netterville
* Laurence
* Bertram
* Brice
* Nicholas de Mellipont

Late Medieval|

* William Morice
* Maurice Sweetman
* Richard Moore
* William Pieroun
* Roger Stedman
* William Somerville
* Richard Rowe
* John Prene
* John White
* Thomas Waryn
* James White
* Cormac Roth
* Thomas Leverous
* Gerald Renaldi

Early modern|

* Christopher Ussher
* Luke Ussher
* William Fullarton
* Thomas Vesey
* John Vesey
* William Smith
* Michael Ward
* Thomas Otway
* Edmund Arwaker
* John Travers
* Michael Heweton
* William Hamilton
* Charles Este
* Henry Jenny
* Charles Congreve
* Arthur Jacob
* John Freind
* William Sturrock
* Charles Knox
* Edward Stopford

Late modern|

* John Stokes
* Robert Dixon
* William Edward Meade
* Charles King Irwin
* Edward Meade
* Waller Hobson
* Charles King Irwin (son)
* Lockett Ford
* John Crooks
* Frederick Gowing
* Bill Colthurst
* Raymond Hoey
* Terry Scott

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