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Thomas Cranmer
leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 July 1489
- Died
- 21 March 1556
- Place of birth
- Aslockton
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Thomas
- Family name
- Cranmer
- Father
- Thomas Cranmer
- Mother
- Agnes Hatfield
- Spouse
- Margaret Cranmer
- Occupation
- Anglican priest, theologian, canon law jurist, Catholic bishop, archbishop, Protestant reformer
- Position held
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Religion
- Anglicanism, Catholic Church
- academic degree
- Doctor of Divinity
- canonization status
- saint
- cause of death
- death by burning
- consecrator
- John Longland, John Vesey, Henry Standish
- depicted by
- Thomas Cranmer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Adam: Decades duae continentes vitas theologorum exterorum principum (1618)
- educated at
- Jesus College, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
- employer
- University of Cambridge
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- last words
- Seigneur Jésus, reçois mon esprit
- place of burial
- Martyrs' Memorial
- place of detention
- Tower of London
- significant event
- consecration
- significant person
- Thomas Bedyll, Johannes Dantiscus, Philipp Melanchthon
- student
- Immanuel Tremellius
- topic's main category
- Category:Thomas Cranmer
- work location
- Canterbury
- writing language
- English
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