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About Samuel Poyntz
- Samuel Greenfield Poyntz (4 March 1926 – 18 February 2017) was an Irish bishop and author in the last third of the 20th century.He was born in Manitoba in Canada to the Revd James Poyntz and Catherine Greenfield.
- Poyntz was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1951.
- He began his career with curacies at St George’s Dublin and St Paul’s Dublin before becoming Rector of St Stephen’s, Dublin.
- From 1974 to 1978 he was Archdeacon of Dublin, when he became Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
- In 1987 he was translated to be the Bishop of Connor, retiring in 1995.
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