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Maurice Griffith (or Griffin; c. 1507 – 20 November 1558) was a Welshman who became Bishop of Rochester.Little is known of his birth but it is thought to have been in the Caernarfon area around 1507. He was a friar at Blackfriars Oxford and in 1535 was appointed by John Hilsey then Bishop of Rochester to be his Vicar-General. A succession of posts in the church followed mainly in the Diocese of Rochester but he also maintained his Welsh connection with the see of St. Asaph.