John Merriman was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the sixteenth century.Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 0713642556
An Englishman, he was Chaplain to Elizabeth I of England before his consecration as Bishop of Down and Connor on 19 January 1568. He died in post in 1572."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p203 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
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