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''Synopsis:'' {{Infobox_Contents |topic_name = [[Thomas Cranmer (1489 – 1556) was the [[archbishop of Canterbury]] during the reigns of the English kings [[Henry VIII]] and |subtopics = [[Edward VI]]. He is credited with writing and compiling the first two Books Book of Common Prayer which established the basic structure of Anglican liturgy for over four centuries and influenced the English language through its phrases and quotations. After Queen Mary reunited the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church, he was executed in 1556 for heresy.]] |opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |}}
----__TOC__{{topics}}* Thomas Cranmer (1489 – 1556) was the [[Book archbishop of Canterbury]] during the reigns of the English kings [[Henry VIII]] and [[Edward VI]]. He is credited with writing and compiling the first two Books of Common Prayer]]which established the basic structure of Anglican liturgy for over four centuries and influenced the English language through its phrases and quotations. After Queen Mary reunited the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church, he was executed in 1556 for heresy.
{{opinions}} ==Main article== Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was the archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was also an influential theologian who is , arguably being the co-founder (with Richard Hooker and Matthew Parker) of Anglican theological thought. He helped build the case in favor of Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Cranmer guided the English Reformation in its earliest days. Following the death of King Henry, Thomas Cranmer became a key figure in the regency government of King Edward VI.
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He is credited with writing and compiling the first two Books of Common Prayer which established the basic structure of Anglican liturgy for over four centuries and influenced the English language through its phrases and quotations. Cranmer was an important figure in the English Reformation which denied papal authority over the English Church.
Cranmer, aware that any precontract with a man would invalidate Catherine's marriage to Henry, gave Henry a letter with the accusations against Catherine on November 2, 1541, as they attended an All Souls' Day mass. Henry at first refused to believe the allegations, thinking the letter was a forgery, and requested Cranmer further investigate the matter. Within a few days, corroborative proof was found, including the confessions issued from two men after they were tortured in the Tower of London; as well as a love letter written distinctively in Catherine's handwriting to one of them. Catherine was arrested on 12 November. Her pleas to see Henry were ignored, and Cranmer interrogated her regarding the charges. Even the staunch Cranmer found Catherine's frantic, incoherent state pitiable saying, "I found her in such lamentation and heavyness as I never saw no creature, so that it would have pitied any man's heart to have looked upon her." [18] He ordered the guards to remove any objects that she may use to commit suicide. Catherine's was executed at on 13 February 1542.
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer Wikipedia - Thomas Cranmer]
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