John Longland
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John Longland (died 1547) was the English Dean of Salisbury from 1514 to 1521 and bishop of Lincoln from 1521 to his death in 1547.
He was King Henry VIII's confessor[1] and was said to have been one of those who first persuaded the King that he should annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.[2]
During the English Reformation, he was among the conservative bishops , recognizing the Real Presence of the Eucharist. His conservatism is attested to by his complaint in 1536 to Thomas Cromwell about Protestant preachers in his diocese.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Fideler, P.A.; Mayer, T.F. (1992). Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth. Routledge. pp. 98. ISBN 0415066727. http://books.google.com/books?id=boNIDnBuiQ4C&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Longland+pilgrimage&source=web&ots=1UkbZVE-kV&sig=1hL4hR7--t69Lv5DVuuChcg-N6Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result.
- ^ Spanish Chronicle, p. 5.
- ^ Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (Yale University Press, 2005), p. 388.
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| Preceded by William Atwater |
Bishop of Lincoln 1521–1547 |
Succeeded by Henry Holbeach |
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| Preceded by William Warham |
Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1532–1547 |
Succeeded by Richard Cox |
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