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Edmund Scambler (c.1520–1594) was an English bishop.

Life

He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1542.[1][2][3]

Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[4] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[5]

He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[3][6] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[7]

In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53271
  3. ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  4. ^ Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
  5. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Parker, Matthew.
  6. ^ http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch11.htm
  7. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Pagit, Eusebius.
  8. ^ Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 459-473.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Peterborough
1561–1584
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Norwich
1585–1594
Succeeded by