{{Short description|Irish Anglican bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox bishop styles | bishop name = Nicholas Stafford | dipstyle = The Right Reverend | offstyle = My Lord or Bishop | image = }} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Nicholas Stafford''' (1691–1762) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of Ireland in the early seventeenth century.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}</ref>

A former Chancellor of Ferns and Leighlin<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. pp336 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref> he was Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin<ref>"A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}</ref> from 1601 until his death in 1604." The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow " Ryan, J. p139: Dublin; Richard Moore;1833

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