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Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) was a English cleric, archbishop of Canterbury from 1533.

Short Biography:

A Protestant convert, under Edward VI he helped to shape the doctrines of the Church of England. He was responsible for the issue of the Prayer Books of 1549 and 1552, and supported the succession of Lady Jane Grey. He was burned at the stake as a heretic by Mary I.

Cranmer suggested in 1529 that the question of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon should be referred to the un read more...

Tags: archbishop, cleric, doctrines

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