Thomas Barrett (bishop)

Styles of Thomas Barrett
Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	My Lord
Religious style	Bishop

Thomas Barrett (Irish: Tomás Bairéad; died c. 1485) was a fifteenth-century Bishop of Annaghdown.

Barrett obtained a papal provision to the see of Annaghdown on 17 April 1458 and acted as a suffragan bishop in the English dioceses of Exeter (1458; 1468–75) and Bath and Wells (1482–85).^[1][2]

According to Cotton, Barrett was also a canon of York Minster; holding the Prebendary of Laughton (1466–67).^[3][4]

Barrett died sometime after 1485.^[1][2]

Notes

1. Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 331.
2. Moody, Martin & Byrne 1984, A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 324.
3. Jones 1963, Prebendaries of Laughton, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, volume 6, pp. 64–65.
4. Cotton 1850, The Province of Connaught, p. 55.

References

• Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Jones, B (1963). "Prebendaries of Laughton". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541. Volume 6: Northern Province (York, Carlise and Durham). Institute of Historical Research.
• Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. A New History of Ireland. Volume IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.