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Edmund Bonner (also Boner; [2] c. 1500 – 5 September 1569) was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms introduced by the Duke of Somerset and reconciled himself to Catholicism.
clergyman – former chaplain to Bishop John Fisher: hanged, drawn and quartered 22 May 1543 [40] Calais [41] Windsor Martyrs: 49. Robert Testwood: City of London (originally) musician in the college at Windsor burnt 28 July 1543 Windsor, Berkshire [42] [43] 50. Anthony Pearson: clergyman – priest of Windsor; popular preacher [42] [44] 51 ...
Thomas Tomkins (died 16 March 1555) was a 16th-century English Protestant martyr. He was a weaver [1] from Shoreditch, London, and was examined by Bishop Bonner. Despite having been subjected to torture, he insisted that he did not believe in transubstantiation. As a result, he was burned to death at Smithfield on 16 March 1555. [2]
Richard Woodman and nine other people were burned together in Lewes on 22 June 1557, on the orders of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London — the largest single bonfire of people that ever took place in England. [4] [5] The ten of them had not been kept in the town gaol before they were executed but in an undercroft of the Star Inn.
Hunter was then sent to Bishop Bonner in London. He resisted both threats and bribes—Bonner offered to make him a Freeman of the City of London and give him £40—and was eventually returned to Brentwood to be burnt. He was the first Essex martyr of the reign of Mary Tudor. [3]
Budde is not a Catholic bishop. She is a member of the Protestant Episcopalian community and is the community’s leader in Washington D.C., according to her page on the Washington National ...
John Roy Hooper (also Johan Hoper; c. 1495 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, later of Worcester and Gloucester, a Protestant reformer and a Protestant martyr. A proponent of the English Reformation, he was executed for heresy by burning during the reign of Queen Mary I.
The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S., mirroring in many ways the broader fight for ...