Tags: Christian Bishop.
William Russell (died 1374) was a fourteenth-century Cistercian prelate. He appears to have begun his career as a Cistercian monk at Rushen Abbey on the Isle of Man (Mann) ascending to the rank of abbot there before being elected Bishop of Mann and the Isles (Sodor). After traveling to Continental Europe for confirmation and consecration avoiding a trip to the metropolitan in Norway he returned to the Irish Sea as a legal bishop.
