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Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a theologian, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.
Archdeacon of Taunton; [58] first Protestant archbishop; excommunicated by Rome and deprived for heresy 1553; [58] put to death by burning, 21 March 1556. [58] Arms of Bishop Cranmer: Argent, on a chevron azure between three pelicans sable vulning themselves proper as many cinquefoils or [59] 22 Mar 1556 18/19 Nov 1558 Cardinal Reginald Pole
Thomas Cranmer, appointed in 1533, was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury and would become one of the most important figures in the development of Anglicanism. The archbishop is appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the prime minister of the United Kingdom and formally elected by the college of canons of Canterbury Cathedral.
The King's School, Canterbury claims Augustine as its founder, which would make it the world's oldest existing school, but the first documentary records of the school date from the 16th century. [64] Augustine did establish a school, and soon after his death Canterbury was able to send teachers out to support the East Anglian mission. [65]
Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, in 1521 by Pope Leo X. Henry VIII of England in 1533, officially promulgated on 17 December 1538 by Pope Paul III. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury of the Church of England. Cardinal Odet de Coligny, on 31 March 1563, for professing the Calvinist faith.
It was the moment when church and state came together – and he was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to enact such a ceremony in 70 years, something his immediate five predecessors in the role ...
Thomas Cranmer, a Reformer, was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and principal compiler of the Book of Common Prayer, Thirty-nine Articles, and Books of Homilies. In the reign of Edward VI (1547–1553), the Church of England underwent an extensive theological reformation. Justification by faith was made a central teaching. [24]
Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was an English bishop.He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 to his death. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with a previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer and the theologian Richard Hooker) of a distinctive tradition of Anglican theological thought.