Edmund Nugent, O.S.A. (died 1550) was an Irish bishopCotton (1849), The Province of Ulster, p. 156. of the Church of Ireland.Brady (1876), The Episcopal Succession, volume 1, pp. 279–280.
Nugent was the last Prior of Tristernagh Abbey.Moody, Martin, and Byrne (1984), A New History of Ireland, volume IX, pp. 289, 349, and 404. He was appointed bishop on 22 January 1530, but continued to hold the abbey in commendam until he surrendered it to King Henry VIII in 1536 and accepted royal supremacy. He was deprived of the Roman Catholic see by Pope Paul III in 1540, but continued as the Church of Ireland bishop until his death in 1550.Fryde, Greenway, Porter, and Roy (1986), Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 363, 398 and 436.
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