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Irish Anglican bishop (died 1720)

Simon Digby
Bishop of Elphin

Church	Church of Ireland
Diocese	Elphin
Previous post(s)	Dean of Kildare (1678–1679) Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1679–1690)
Orders
Consecration	23 March 1679
Personal details
Died	7 April 1720 (1720-04-08)
Parents	Essex Digby
Spouse	Elizabeth Westenra
Children	16
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin

Simon Digby was an Irish Anglican bishop at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the son of Essex Digby and attended Trinity College Dublin. After a short spell as Dean of Kildare in 1678–1679, he was nominated Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe on 24 January 1679 and consecrated on 23 March that year. He was summoned to attend the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689. In 1690 he was translated to Elphin, being nominated on 4 December and appointed by letters patent on 12 January the following year. He died in office on 7 April 1720.

References

^ Library Ireland
"History of the Church of Ireland: From the revolution to the union of the Churches of England and Ireland, January 1, 1801" Mant, R: London, J.W. Parker, 1840
"A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J;Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
"Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Cotton, H Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860

Church of England titles
Preceded byJohn Vesey	Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1679–1691	Succeeded byNathanael Wilson
Vacant	Bishop of Elphin 1691–1720	Succeeded byHenry Downes

v t e Anglican Bishops of Elphin
Conach O'Shiel Roland de Burgo Thomas Chester John Lynch Edward King Henry Tilson John Parker John Hodson Simon Digby Henry Downes Theophilus Bolton Robert Howard Edward Synge William Gore Jemmett Browne Charles Dodgson John Law Power Le Poer Trench John Leslie

v t e Bishops of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
merged from Limerick & Ardfert and Aghadoe Edward Synge William Fuller Francis Marsh John Vesey Simon Digby Nathanael Wilson Thomas Smyth William Burscough James Leslie John Averell William Gore William Pery Thomas Barnard Charles Warburton Thomas Elrington John Jebb Edmund Knox William Higgin Henry Griffin Charles Graves Thomas Bunbury Raymond Orpen Harry Vere White King Irwin Evelyn Hodges Robert Wyse Jackson Donald Caird merged to Limerick and Killaloe

v t e Deans of Kildare
Nicholas Conyll Edward Dillon William Miagh David Stubin Denis Ellan Thomas Ellis Walter Cleborne Christopher Golborne John Worth Simon Digby Samuel Synge John Clayton Sankey Winter Gabriel Maturin Philip Fletcher William Fletcher Edward Ledwich Robert King Dixie Blundell Arthur Preston Thomas Trench James Gregory Sir John Wolseley Bt George Cowell Edward Waller Herbert Craig John Paterson Matthew Byrne Robert Towneley John Marsden

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