About William Senhouse
Lived 1401 – 1505 (aged 103–104). William Senhouse was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
William Senhouse (died 1505), also called William Sever, was an English priest, successively Bishop of Carlisle, 1495–1502, and Bishop of Durham, 1502–1505.
Senhouse was educated at the University of Oxford and became a Benedictine monk at St Mary's Abbey, York, being elected abbot in 1485. He was selected as bishop of Carlisle on 4 September 1495, and consecrated in 1496. He was translated to Durham on 27 June 1502.
Senhouse died in 1505.
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Bishop of Carlisle, Bishop of Durham
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William Senhouse was born in 1401.
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William Senhouse died in 1505.
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William Senhouse was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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