John Skypp
Deceased Person
– 1552
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Who was John Skypp?
John Skypp was the Bishop of Hereford from 1539 until 1552. Born of humble parents, Edmund and Alice Skyppe who both died in 1507 in Irstead Norfolk he graduated from Gonville College in 1518, and embarked on a clerical career that saw him become Vicar of Newington, Shepway, almoner to Anne Boleyn and Archdeacon of Suffolk before elevation to the Episcopate.
He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Mounthaw a church in the City of London which was destroyed during the Great Fire of London.
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