Hugh Latimer

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Hugh Latimer

Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-October 16, 1555) was the bishop of Worcester

Bishop of Worcester

The Bishop of Worcester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England.The diocese covers the county of Worcestershire, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and parts of the City of Wolverhampton....
, and by his death he became a famous martyr

Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
among Protestants and the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
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Latimer was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston

Thurcaston

Thurcaston is a village in Leicestershire county, located in central England). It is best known as the home to Bishop Hugh Latimer.It borders the villages of Anstey, Leicestershire and Cropston, as well as the Leicester suburb of Beaumont Leys....
, Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Hall, situated in Glenfield, Leicestershire, about 3 miles northwest of Leicester city centre, is the seat of Leicestershire County Council and the headquarters of the county authority....
. From around 14 years of age he started to attend Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest University_of_Cambridge/Colleges in Cambridge, except for certain colleges that admit only women, graduates, or mature studen...
, and was known as a good student. After receiving his academic degree

Academic degree

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s and being ordained

Ordination

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Quotations

The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them….

Sermons Cambridge University Press (1844)

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Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-October 16, 1555) was the bishop of Worcester

Bishop of Worcester

Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
among Protestants and the Church of England

Church of England

Thurcaston

Leicestershire

Peterhouse, Cambridge

Academic degree

Ordination

In general religious use, ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies....
, he developed a reputation as a very zealous Roman Catholic. At first he opposed the Lutheran opinion of his day, but his views changed after meeting the clergyman Thomas Bilney

Thomas Bilney

Thomas Bilney was an England martyr....
.

In 1510, he was elected a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a college of the University of Cambridge, the second oldest surviving college after Peterhouse, Cambridge.Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens, which form part of what is known as the Backs, the back of the colleges that overlook the River Cam....
and in 1522 became university preacher. He became noted for his reformist

Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a Christian reform movement in Europe. It is thought to have begun in 1517 with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and may be considered to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648....
teachings, which attracted the attention of the authorities. He became a noted preacher more widely. In 1535, he was appointed Bishop of Worcester

Bishop of Worcester

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
absentee, and promoted reformed teachings in his diocese. In 1539, he opposed Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
's Six Articles, with the result that he was forced to resign his bishopric and imprisoned in the Tower of London

Tower of London

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(where he was again in 1546).

During the reign of Henry's son Edward VI

Edward VI of England

Edward VI became List of English monarchs and King of Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII of England and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first Protestantism ruler....
, he was restored to favour as the English church moved in a more Protestant direction, becoming court preacher until 1550. He then served as chaplain to Katherine Duchess of Suffolk

Catherine Willoughby

Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, suo jure 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby , was a noblewoman living at the England courts of Henry VIII of England, Edward VI of England and later, Elizabeth I of England....
. However, when Edward VI's sister Queen Mary I

Mary I of England

Mary I , was Queen of England and Monarchy of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI of England, to the English throne....
came to the throne, he was tried for his beliefs and teachings in Oxford and imprisoned

Prison

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. In October 1555 he was burned at the stake

Execution by burning

Capital punishment by combustion, , has a long history as a method of punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy and witchcraft . This method of execution fell into disfavor among governments in the late 18th century; today, it is considered cruel and unusual punishment....
outside Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College , founded in 1263, is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England.Balliol is Oxford's most popular college, measured in terms of the number of applications for entry from prospective students....
.

Latimer was executed beside Nicholas Ridley

Nicholas Ridley (martyr)

Nicholas Ridley was an England clergyman. He came from a prominent family in Tynedale, Northumberland, and was born early in the sixteenth century....
. He is quoted as having said to Ridley:

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

The deaths of Latimer, Ridley and later Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII of England and Edward VI of England....
— now known as the Oxford Martyrs

Oxford Martyrs

The Oxford Martyrs were tried for heresy in 1555 and subsequently burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings....
— are commemorated in Oxford by the Victorian Martyrs' Memorial

Martyrs' Memorial

The Martyrs' Memorial is an imposing stone monument positioned at the intersection of St Giles' Street, Oxford, Magdalen Street and Beaumont Street in Oxford, England just outside Balliol College....
which is located near the actual execution site. The Latimer room in Clare College, Cambridge is named after him.

Latimer's belief in Christ's return

Hugh Latimer said, "It may come in my days, old as I am, or in my children's days, the saints shall be taken up to meet Christ in the air, and so shall come down with Him again" (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4).

Hugh Latimer

Latimer's belief in Christ's return

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