John Dongan

John Dongan
Bishop of Down
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
SeeDiocese of Down
In office1394–1413
Previous post(s)Bishop of Man and the Isles (1374–1387/1391)
Bishop of Derry (1391–1394)
Personal details
Bornunknown
Died1413 or after

John Dongan [Donegan, Donnegan, Donkan, Duncan] (died 1413) was a medieval Manx prelate. After holding the position of Archdeacon of Down, he held three successive bishoprics, Man and the Isles (Sodor), then the see of Derry and lastly, Down.

He resigned his last bishopric in 1413, and died afterwards at an unrecorded date. He was the last bishop of the united diocese of Sodor, which split into the "Scottish" and "Irish" (Manx) parts because of the Western Schism.[1]

  1. ^ "Scottish" and "Irish" is how it is described in contemporary papal writs; Man is Sodor in Hibernia and the Hebrides Sodor in Scotia; see Dowden, Bishops, p. 287, n. 2.