Richard Betts was an
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
priest.
Betts was
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England
The Church ...
to
King James I & VI. He was appointed
Bishop of Kilfenora
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by
letters patent
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on 19 September 1628, but who, when he arrived in Ireland and learned of the poverty of the see, declined the appointment and left without consecration.
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17th-century Irish Anglican priests
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