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Thomas Cranmer
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Thomas Cranmer was the Archbishop of Canterbury who led the English Reformation, the major religious transformation that separated the English church from Rome in the 16th century. His role in this pivotal historical shift makes him a central figure in the development of the Church of England and in European religious history more broadly.
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- 1489
- Died
- 1556
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- 105
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- Articles to be enquired of in the visitacions to bee had within the Diocesse of Cantorbury
- Send-Schreiben dess Cardinals und Legaten dess apostolichen Stuhls Reginaldi Poli an Thomas Cranmer, Ertzbischoff zu Cambridge in Engelland, betreffend den Glaubens Punct. dess hochwürdigsten Sacraments dess Altars. Aus dem Frantzösischen in das Teutsche überstzt
- Cathechismus
- An exhortation vnto prayer, thoughte mete by the Kinges Maiestie, and his clergy, to be read to the people in euery church afore processyons
- An exhortacion vnto praier, thought mete by the Kynges maiestie, [and] his clergye, to be read to the people, in euerye churche afore processions
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- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
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Quotes
- “There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so surely established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.”
- “In the midst of life we are in death.”
- “I commend thy soul to God, and thy body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.”
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- Seigneur Jésus, reçois mon esprit
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Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was an English theologian who was a leader of the English Reformation and served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He is honoured as a martyr in the Church of England.
Cranmer was ordained a Catholic priest and served on the theology faculty at Cambridge University. At the behest of Cardinal Wolsey, he later served Henry VIII as a diplomat in Europe. Cranmer helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. Along with Thomas Cromwell, he supported the principle of royal supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm and protector of his people from the abuses of Rome. During Cranmer's tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, he established the first doctrinal and liturgical structures of the reformed Church of England. Under Henry's rule, Cranmer did not make many radical changes in the Church due to power struggles between religious conservatives and reformers. He published the first officially authorised vernacular (English) service, the Exhortation and Litany.