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Johannes (also known as John), O.Cist. was an Irish bishop in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

Formerly Abbot of Monasterevin, he was consecrated Bishop of Leighlin at Rome by Pope Innocent III on 18 September 1198; and died in 1201. His brother William was the first recorded Archdeacon of Leighlin, holding the office in 1200.

References

1. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p383 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
2. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 364, 400 and 437. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
3. Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 383–387.
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p397 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878

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