Thomas Cranmer
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Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) was an Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the founders of the Church of England under Henry VIII. He helped the king to get rid of Catherine of Aragon and wrote the Book of Common Prayer. He was killed by Mary I of England when he refused to return to Catholicism.
He was born in Nottinghamshire and died in Oxford.
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- 1489 births
- 1556 deaths
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Archbishops of Canterbury
- English Anglicans
- English theologians
- Executed English people
- Former Roman Catholics
- People excommunicated by the Catholic Church
- People executed by burning
- People from Nottinghamshire
- Protestant Reformers
- English Roman Catholic archbishops