Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, serving under Henry VIII and Edward VI.
He shaped the English Reformation, authoring much of the Book of Common Prayer and establishing liturgical language that influenced English prose for centuries.
Under the Catholic Queen Mary I, he was tried for heresy and burned at the stake in 1556, famously thrusting into the flames the hand that had signed his recantation.
Anglican official worship text
- English ReformationEngland's break from Catholicism
- Edward VIBrief Tudor monarch
- Act of SupremacyLaw establishing royal church control
- CromwellEnglish republican military leader
Anglican official worship text
- collectsGathers and keeps
- communion serviceEucharistic worship gathering
- ordinalNumber denoting position
- burial serviceCeremony for interring remains
litany · homilies · prayer book · sacraments · Eucharist
Historic English university town
- burningCombustion in progress
- stakeSharpened post or share
- recantationFormal withdrawal of statement
- Mary IFirst English queen regnant
Ridley · execution · persecution · steadfastness · heresy trial · imprisonment · Tower of London · courage
Writer of autobiographical accounts
- Thirty-Nine ArticlesAnglican doctrinal foundation
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
Historic English ecclesiastical seat
- primateHigher mammal order member
- Archbishop of CanterburyHead of English church
- episcopateBishops as a body
- dioceseBishop's territorial jurisdiction
ordination · mitre · crosier · consecration · metropolitan · see · Church of England · investiture
Book of Common Prayer
Anglican official worship text
- English ReformationEngland's break from Catholicism
- Edward VIBrief Tudor monarch
- Act of SupremacyLaw establishing royal church control
Book of Common Prayer
Anglican official worship text
- collectsGathers and keeps
- communion serviceEucharistic worship gathering
- ordinalNumber denoting position
burial service · litany · homilies · prayer book · sacraments · Eucharist
Oxford
Historic English university town
- burningCombustion in progress
- stakeSharpened post or share
- recantationFormal withdrawal of statement
Mary I · Ridley · execution · persecution · steadfastness · heresy trial · imprisonment · Tower of London · courage · witness
memorialist
Writer of autobiographical accounts
- Thirty-Nine ArticlesAnglican doctrinal foundation
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- scriptureSacred religious writings
Canterbury
Historic English ecclesiastical seat
- primateHigher mammal order member
- Archbishop of CanterburyHead of English church
- episcopateBishops as a body
diocese · ordination · mitre · crosier · consecration · metropolitan · see · Church of England · investiture · cathedral
- Christian MartyrsStephen, Sebastian, Lawrence, Ignatius of Antioch, Felicity
- ReformationMartin Luther, John Calvin, 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation, Luther
- British ReligionAnglican, Church of Scotland, Archbishop of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Westminster Abbey
- English ChurchEnglish Reformation, Church of England, Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Book of Common Prayer
- MartyrsSaint Stephen, Saint Peter, Saint Sebastian, Saint Paul, Saint Lawrence
- Reformation ClergyMartin Luther, John Calvin, Menno Simons