John Hooper (bishop)
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John Roy Hooper was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, later of Worcester and Gloucester, a Protestant reformer and a Protestant martyr. A proponent of the English Reformation, he wa
John Hooper by Henry Bryan Hall after James Warren Childe cropped
Monument to Bishop Hooper in St. Mary's Square, Gloucester
John Hooper's execution as depicted in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
Stephen Gardiner
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Stephen Gardiner was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I.
John Hooper (bishop)
…been a non-resident incumbent. The Greyfriars' Chronicle says that Hooper was "sometime a white monk"; and in the sentence pronounced against him by Stephen Gardiner he is described as "olim monachus de Cliva Ordinis Cisterciensis," i.e. of the Cistercian house of Cleeve Abbey in Somerset. On the other hand, he was…
Portrait by Quentin Matsys
Gardiner's seat, Winchester Cathedral
Thomas Cranmer became an enemy of Gardiner.
Bishop Gardiner's Conference with Lady Jane Grey, from the Victorian Pictorial Tower of London