Patrick, Simon, English prelate; distinguished himself, when he was rector of St. Paul's, by his self-denying devotion during the Plague of London; became bishop in succession of Chichester and Ely, and was the author of a number of expository works (1652‒1707).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Patrick, St. * Patristic Literature