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Matthew Sanders was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop in the sixteenth century.

He was promoted Bishop of Leighlin by Pope Clement VII on 11 April 1527. He swore the oath of supremacy at Clonmel early in 1539; and died on 23 (or 24) December 1549. He was buried at St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin

References

1. 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.
   - 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.
2. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p387 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
3. Bagwell, Richard (1885–90). Ireland Under the Tudors. Vol. 1. p. 305.

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