{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Eugene Magennis''' was at times [[Bishop of Down and Connor]]<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" [[Henry Cotton (divine)|Cotton, H.]] pp 202/3 [[Dublin]], Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref> during the period from 1539 to 1563.<ref>''Handbook of British Chronology'' By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, [[Cambridge University Press|CUP]], 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 0713642556</ref>
A Papal appointee from 1539, and already [[Archdeacon of Down]],<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" [[Henry Cotton (divine)|Cotton, H.]] p230/31 [[Dublin]], Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878</ref> he accepted royal supremacy and was confirmed by [[letters patent]] on 8 May 1542. Magennis retained possession during the reign of [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary I]]; and probably attended the 1560 parliament where he took the [[Oath of Supremacy]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000|author=Tanner, M.|date=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300092813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WEiW1fNAX6sC&pg=PA86|page=86|accessdate=2017-09-10}}</ref>
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