{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Robert Blyth,''' [[Order of Saint Benedict|OSB]] (b [[Norton, Derbyshire]] 1470 - d [[Cambridge]] 1547) was a [[Bishop of Down and Connor]]<ref>"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" [[Henry Cotton (divine)|Cotton, H.]] pp 202 [[Dublin]], Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878</ref> in the first half of the sixteenth century.<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>
Also the [[Abbot]] of [[Thorney Abbey]],<ref name="british-history">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol2/pp210-217|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Thorney|website=British History Online|accessdate=2017-09-10}}</ref> he was first appointed on 16 April 1520; but accepted [[royal supremacy]] in 1539. He was [[Deposition (politics)|deposed]] by [[Pope Paul III]]. Blyth also acted as a [[suffragan bishop]] in the [[Diocese of Ely]]<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See|author=Sweeting, W.D.|date=2012|publisher=tredition|isbn=9783842498464|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbOaqmKwlQsC&pg=PT179|accessdate=2017-09-10}}</ref> from 1539 to 1541.
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