Michael Hugh Gunton Mayes (born 31 August 1941) was Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1993 to 2000 and then of Limerick and Killaloe until 2008.
[1] Mayes was educated at The Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin.
[2] He was ordained in 1964 and his first post was as a curate in Portadown[3] after which he spent six years as an USPG missionary in Japan.
[4] He then held incumbencies in Cork and was later Archdeacon of the area before his ordination to the episcopate.
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