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 and 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.